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Royal Ontario Museum

25th Annual Report
July 1974/June 1975

Members of the Board
as of June 30, 1975

Mr. G.D. de S. Wotherspoon,
D.S.O., C.St.J., E.D., C.D.,
Q.C., Chairman
Mr. G.E. Boyce
Mr. Ernest A. Du Vernet
Mr. John W. Eleen
Mr. H. Donald Guthrie, Q.C.

Miss Ella N. Martin
Mrs. G.R. Matte
Mrs. W.L.C. McGill
Mrs. W.M. Myers
Prof. Fernand Oueliet
Mr. David F. Quan
Mrs. W.O. Randall
Mrs. E. Redelmeier
Mr. Walter J. Reeves
Mr. D.S. Rickerd
Mr. Warren S. Seyffert
Mr. Reg Wheeler
Mr. Peter G. White

Ex-Officio Members

Dr. John R. Evans
President, University of Toronto

Mr. C. Malim Harding
Chairman, Governing Council,
University of Toronto

Dr. Walter M. Tovell
Director

Secretary
F.J. Dunbar

Honorary Trustees

Dean A.D. Allen
Mr. W.M. Vacy Ash
Dr. L.G. Berry
Dean V.V. Bladen
Mr. Henry Borden, Q.C.
Mrs. H.A. Bruce
Mrs. W.H. Clarke
Mr. R.G. Cole
Mr. J. Harold Crang
Mrs. D.C. Early
Mrs. A.J. Grout
Mrs. C.L. Gundy
Mrs. W.B. Harris
Dr. T.A. Heinrich
Mr. R.A. Laidlaw
Mr. J.E. Langdon
Mr. B. Matthews, Q.C.

Mr. J.A. McDougald

Mr. N.J. McKinnon

Mr. Richard G. Meech, Q.C

Rt. Hon. Roland Michener

Dr. W.S. Monk

Mr. Hugh Pryce-Jones

Dr. O.M. Solandt

Mr. Clair Stewart

Mrs. Edgar Stone

Senator J.A. Sullivan

Dr. O.M. Sullivan

Dr. W.E. Swinton

Mr. Noah Torno

Mr. H.M. Turner

Mrs. O.D. Vaughan

Mr. D.C. Webster

Col. D.B. Weldon

Mr. J.R.M. Wilson

The cover (front and back): Two of a group of six bronze
Bacchic dancing figures with musical instruments by
Eugene Desire Piron (1875-1928). Photographs by W.B.
Robertson, Photography Department, ROM.

August 7— November 16,1 974

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Report of the Board of Trustees
of the Royal Ontario Museum

to the Lieutenant Governor in Council July 1974/June 1975

Planning for expansion of facilities and services has been
a major theme during this past year. Many activities
directed towards this end are progressing concurrently.
The architectural firms of Mathers & Haldenby and Moffat,
Moffat & Kinoshita have been appointed and, with their
professional consultants, are currently investigating the
technical aspects of expansion. At the same time, the
Museum is conducting an extensive survey to determine
its real needs for the next 25 years. In this connection,
more than 1 ,700 letters have been sent to individuals and
organizations throughout the province, and the response
to date has been most helpful.

A major event was the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds
of the People’s Republic of China which was shown at
the ROM from August to November. We are grateful to
the Directors of the Chinese Exhibition Council, to the
provincial and federal governments, to the members of
the Museum’s permanent staff, and to the many others
who were directly or indirectly involved in The Chinese
Exhibition. The fact that the Board of Directors included
representatives of the federal and provincial
governments, as well as of various cultural and academic
institutions, assisted materially in the many negotiations
with our Chinese friends and with other governments.
Thanks to their combined efforts, the Museum now has a
trust fund from which capital can be made available to
initiate large-scale exhibitions and other similar projects.

The Museum acknowledges the generous support of the
Province of Ontario in providing the greater part of our
operating expenses, of which nearly 80 per cent consists
of salaries and wages. During the year, responsibility for
the Museum at the provincial level was transferred from
the Ministry of Colleges and Universities to the new
Ministry of Culture and Recreation, under the guidance of
the Honourable Robert Welch. The Museum has other
associations with the provincial government through its
work with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of
Natural Resources.

We also record our gratitude to the Canada Council, the
National Research Council, and the many corporations,
institutions, and individuals who, through grants,
bequests, or donations, have contributed to the
improvement of the collections, to the acquisition of new
knowledge through research and archaeological
expeditions, and to the dissemination of that knowledge
through display, lecture, and publication. We appreciate,
too, the cooperation of the University of T oronto in our
academic programme— including our joint post-graduate
Museology programme— and in the many areas of
service provided by the University.

Mr. Gerald Boyce of Belleville and Professor Fernand
Ouellet of Ottawa finished their terms as members of the
Board of T rustees as of June 30, 1 975. We thank them
for their contributions during their period in office. In their
stead, the provincial government has appointed Mme.

Jacqueline Martin of Ottawa and Mr. Nicola Colangelo of
T oronto to be members of the Board. In addition, Mrs.

Ruth McGill of Brantford, Mrs. Maureen Myers of
Chatham, and Mr. John Eleen of Toronto have been
reappointed for a further three-year term.

The ROM could not operate without the loyal support of
all the Museum’s people— full-time staff, Research
Associates, and volunteers alike. We are particularly
grateful to Dr. Walter M. Tovell, Chief Executive Officer of
the Museum since June 1 972, who completed his term as
Director on June 30, 1 975. Our thanks go also to Mr.
Maxwell Henderson for his work as Director
(Administration) until December 31 , 1 974, and since then
as special consultant to the Chairman in reviewing a
number of the Museum’s financial activities. Mr.
Henderson will continue his association with the Museum
as an elected member of the Board of T rustees for a
three-year term beginning July 1 , 1 975.

The Board has appointed Dr. James E. Cruise to be
Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Ontario
Museum as of July 1 , 1 975. Dr. Cruise was formerly
Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
at the University of Toronto. Previously, he had been
Professor of Botany at the University of Toronto,
following a succession of teaching appointments in
Canada and the United States.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge the work of my
predecessor, Mr. Noah Torno, as Chairman of the Board,
and as Chairman of the Chinese Exhibition Council of the
Royal Ontario Museum. For nearly seven years, ever
since the Museum as an organization was separated from
the University of Toronto, he played a significant part in
shaping the policy of the institution. Thanks to his efforts,
we have a strong base on which to build.

G.D. Wotherspoon

Chairman,

Board of Trustees

June 30, 1975

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1971 - June 30, 1974 the Board of Trustees from July 1 , 1974

James E. Cruise, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Director from July 1, 1975

Walter M. Tovell, B.A., M.S., Ph.D., appointed Associate Director,
December 15, 1971; Director (pro tern.), December 1, 1972. Director,
July 1, 1973 -June 30, 1975

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Gerald Campbell Studios

Director’s Report

The Royal Ontario Museum opened its doors to the public
on 19 March 1914.

Sixty-one years later, the year of 1 July 1 974 to 30 June
1 975 will undoubtedly be recognized as a turning point in
the history of the institution.

This is the year that the Museum successfully concluded
hosting The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the
People’s Republic of China, the largest exhibition ever
shown in the Museum’s history. The highlights of the
event appear elsewhere in the Annual Report.

The planning and staging of the exhibition were done
completely by members of the Museum staff, with
additional help as required. However, to facilitate the
solution of the numerous problems, financial, political,
and physical, a corporation, The Chinese Exhibition
Council of the Royal Ontario Museum, was established.
The Council was composed of senior officials of the
Museum and distinguished Canadians, and was chaired
by Mr. Noah Torno.

The complex negotiations for staging the exhibition were
carried out by Mr. Torno, Mr. Maxwell Henderson, and
Dr. Walter Tovell, and the Exhibition Manager, Mr. Guy
Pearse, with senior officials of the Department of External
Affairs of the Federal Government of Canada and
diplomatic representatives of the People’s Republic of
China in Ottawa.

The success of the exhibition tends to be judged by the
Balance Sheet, and the fact that the exhibition drew
435,000 people. However, the important point is that
amongst this number of people from all walks of life and
distant lands were many who had not visited the Museum
previously. When in April of 1 975 the Director was invited
to be a member of a special mission to visit the People’s
Republic of China, it became obvious what an important
step had been taken because of the exhibition in
developing a dialogue between the two countries. From
the Museum’s point of view, it established excellent
contacts with Chinese scholars.

This year the Ministry of Natural Resources of the
Province of Ontario selected the Royal Ontario Museum
as the institution to house a geochronology laboratory.
This facility will be equipped to date rocks of the
Precambrian Shield and so obtain a better understanding
of the sequences of these rocks. The laboratory will be
available to institutions in Ontario from the public and
private sectors for scientific and applied uses.

The contrast between the Chinese Exhibition and the
geochronology laboratory illustrates the diversity of
functions and expertise of the Royal Ontario Museum; the
common base is the fact that the institution is a custodian
of artifacts and specimens representing the basis of
knowledge and evidence of man’s past achievements in

many parts of the world. Many collections document the
natural history and archaeology of Ontario, while
ethnographic studies have earned the respect of the
Native peoples of the province. The Museum, therefore,
is an institution capable of research and interpretation of
the present as well as the past. It is an institution that can
and does provide a basis for the enrichment of life within
the province of Ontario and beyond. The Museum has
always recognized its provincial responsibilities; through
organizational changes, and with special funding from the
Ministry of Culture and Recreation and the Federal
Government, the ROM has, this year, taken steps to
increase its activity beyond its walls.

The Museum played an active role in programmes
associated with Festival Ontario, hosting conservation
training sessions, expanding the use of three
museumobiles, and planning for “The Royal Ontario
Museum Gallery” in the Art Gallery of Windsor.

A special event of the year was the seminar organized by
members of the Board of Trustees and the staff. The
seminar took place 1 3-1 5 January 1 975 and provided a
forum for all to become better acquainted and obtain a
better understanding of the Museum and what it stands
for. The reports compiled for the seminar described the
resources and projects of each department.

The Directors recognized that the changing economic
conditions of the past year have caused numerous
frustrations for the Museum staff. Certain programmes
have had to be postponed, and staffing has had to be
curtailed. Nevertheless, I believe that the Museum staff
has understood the problems, and remained dedicated to
the work of the institution. For this, I am most gratified.

Much of the work of the Museum would not be possible
without the assistance of volunteers, those Museum
members who spend countless hours organizing tours,
staffing the information desk, and assisting in
departmental work. To those dedicated individuals the
Directors can only say a sincere “Thank you”. A similar
expression of gratitude must go to the members of the
Board of T rustees, who, through their committees and
regular meetings, gave leadership and guidance to the
institution.

The heavy administrative work load of the Museum was
shared by Mr. Maxwell Henderson who served as
Director (Administration) and Controller. The partnership
constituted a happy sharing of responsibility during which
time considerable progress was made in the organization
and general development of the Museum. Mr. Henderson
resigned on 31 December 1 974 but continued to work
closely with the Director and Associate Director, Dr. W.B.
Scott, until 30 June 1975. 1 am particularly pleased along
with the staff that last May the members of the Museum
elected Mr. Henderson as one of their representatives on
the Board of T rustees for the next three years.

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The year came to a close with the announcement that Dr
J.E. Cruise had been selected to be the next Director of
the Royal Ontario Museum. I welcome this appointment
on behalf of the staff and pledge our support to him for
the tasks that lie ahead.

The individual departmental reports summarize the
programmes and accomplishments of the many
departments that compose the Royal Ontario Museum;
they provide an insight into the diversity of projects
undertaken by the institution.

Walter M. Tovell

Director

June 30, 1975

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Office of the Chief
Archaeologist

A.D. Tushingham, Chief Archaeologist

In spite of the strains of adjusting the Museum’s
archaeological programmes to the changing needs and
desires of our host countries (including Canada) and the
financial squeeze of inflation at home and abroad, I am
happy to report that we have not failed in any of our
commitments. In only one respect have we had to accept
some retrenchment: collaboration with other institutions
in projects which have profited the ROM in many ways
has had to be forgone in order to keep those for which
we have prime responsibility operating in a healthy
fashion. We regret this loss of opportunities but budgets
are tough task-masters.

Field Projects— Canada

Dr. Walter Kenyon, during three weeks spent on Baffin
Island in August 1974, located and recorded some of
Martin Frobisher’s mines and the remains of three houses
he constructed in 1 578. This research was a continuation
of Dr. Kenyon’s study of the early explorers and traders
in the Arctic and, more specifically, contributed to his
preparation of an exhibition entitled "Tokens of
Possession” to be held in the ROM in the spring of 1976
to mark the 400th anniversary of Frobisher’s first
northern voyage. During the past year also, Dr. Kenyon
made a field trip to the Cape Plope Islands in James Bay.

Dr. Peter Storck, with the support of a Canada Council
grant, is continuing his survey of the shoreline of the
glacial Lake Algonquin in a search for further traces of
Early Palaeo-lndian occupation between approximately
1 1 ,600 and 1 0,500 years ago. He is also continuing his
excavation of the Hussey and Banting sites of this period
already discovered.

The Museum also provided some financial support for
Mr. William Finlayson of the University of Western
Ontario, in order that he might investigate a 1 4th-century
Indian village located about two miles northwest of
Crawford Lake where he has been excavating another
Indian site, and to pay for the preparation of data for
computer analysis.

Mr. Selwyn Dewdney continued his efforts to discover
means of dating the pictographs. His main preoccupation
during the past year was with making a critical evaluation
of systems analysis as a technique for sorting
pictographic styles as a possible basis for dating. One
outstanding discovery occurred in May 1975, when an
extraordinary petroglyph site was revealed by highway
construction near Bobcaygeon, Ontario. The glyphs are
unique and undoubtedly prehistoric, preserved by a
substantial overburden of soil. Further work on these is
planned for the autumn of 1 975.

Dr. Daniel Nelson’s search for the wrecks of the armed
schooners Hamilton and Scourge was interrupted during
the summer of 1 974 by the unavailability of the ship and
equipment on which our researches depend. We have
every reason to believe, however, that during the
summer of 1 975 the search will continue.

The Museum has become a collaborator in a new
venture. The Metropolitan Toronto Conservation
Authority is providing facilities for a credit course in field
archaeology for high-school students from the borough of
North York, at the Boyd site near Woodbridge, during the
summer of 1975. The Museum’s Education Department
is providing a teacher; this Office has chosen the field
director and will exercise general supervision of the field
work; the Extension Department is paying the director’s
salary. This is a pilot project intended to acquaint
students not only with the How of archaeology but also
with the Why and Wherefore.

Mr. David Newlands of the Canadiana Department
initiated, in July 1 974, the excavation of the Egmondville
Pottery, and continued his work on the Guard House site
at old Fort York in Toronto. More details on these
projects will be given in the Canadiana report by Mr. D.B.
Webster.

Central and South America

Dr. David Pendergast, at the time of writing, is bringing to
a conclusion his second season of excavations at the
Maya site of Lamanai in Belize (formerly British
Honduras), again with Canada Council support. Once
more he has had the assistance of Dr. Stanley Loten of
Carleton University’s School of Architecture and some of
his students. Dr. Pendergast continues to concentrate on
the late Post-Classic period, that is, the few centuries
which preceded the Spanish Conquest— a time-span in
which at present Lamanai appears to be virtually unique.

Since December 1974 Dr. Kent Day has been engaged in
a strenuous 1 6-month combined exploration and
excavation of the magnificent site of Pampa Grande in
northern Peru. His team of four or five devoted helpers,

Excavations at the Coates Creek Site, Ontario; a late Palaeo-Early
Archaic site from 6000-7000 B.C. Photograph by Lome Fromer

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drawn from a variety of universities and backgrounds, is
gradually making sense of the extremely complex
architectural remains, carefully recording every scrap of
surface evidence before cautiously excavating key points
to resolve difficulties or add to the evidence needed.

England and the Ancient World

As this report is being written, Mr. Francis Pryor is
directing the fifth season of our excavations at Fengate,
near Peterborough, England. He is engaged now in
excavating a Roman farm; this means that he has been
able to document in this one area a series of occupations
stretching over nearly 3,000 years.

Mary Gough is at present in Turkey working with those
who will collaborate in the publication of the results of the
excavation of the Christian monastic establishment of
Alahan. Her Canada Council grant, supplemented by
assistance from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies in Toronto and the ROM, will provide the means
by which the discoveries at this important site, excavated
over so many years by her late husband, can be made
available to the scholarly world.

The joint University of T oronto — Royal Ontario Museum
project in Crete, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Shaw,
has still not put a spade into the ground. In this case the
problem is not staff, money, or permit; rather it is the
necessity of purchasing the land where the excavation is
to be carried out, and this is a slow, complicated
business. Dr. Shaw hopes that all the preliminary
arrangements can be completed this summer so that the
first season of digging can begin in the summer of 1 976.

During the past year the West Asian Department has
continued its active commitment to field work in Iran. Dr.
T. Cuyler Young, Jr., Curator of the Department, carried
out a surface survey in the neighbourhood of the site of
Godin, excavated over the past 10 years, in preparation
for the final publication of that site. Dr. E.J. Keall
inaugurated excavation at the large Parthian-Sasanian
site of Qal’eh-i Yazdigird, and Dr. L. Levine, supported by
a Canada Council grant, has undertaken an
archaeological survey of the Mahidasht Valley in the
central western Zagros mountains. Further details of
these operations will be given in Dr. Young’s report on
the year’s activities of his department.

The ROM was involved, in a small way, in an excavation
in Japan during the summer of 1 974. Dr. William Hurley
of the University of Toronto asked us to collaborate with
the University in a ceramic study to be conducted as part
of a Japanese excavation at Hamanasuno, a Neolithic
(Jomon) site in Hokkaido, Japan. Certainly, no financial
provision had been made for this in our budget but, as
usual, good friends of the Museum came to our
assistance with funds and our collaboration became a
fact.

We have already noted that our support of non-ROM
projects will have to be drastically curtailed, but in the

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last year we were still able to participate in several. The
upper reaches of the Euphrates River in Syria, soon to be
flooded by dams constructed for irrigation and power
purposes, contain many important sites. The ROM’s
support of a British project at Tell es-Sweyhat, under Dr.
Thomas Holland, has been of some assistance in rescue
work before the opportunity is gone. Our support of the
British investigations at Saqqara in Egypt continued, as
did our assistance to the University of Calgary expedition
to Meroe in the Sudan, directed by Peter L. Shinnie.

Other Activities, Honours, and Offices

During the past year Drs. Kenyon and Storck have been
engaged in planning a new gallery devoted to the
archaeology of Ontario — an important development after
more than 1 0 years when popular interest was growing
rapidly while the ROM’s collections were hidden from
view. Dr. Kenyon continued to be a member of the
Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Advisory
Board; Dr. Storck was elected President of the Ontario
Archaeological Society; Dr. Tushingham relinquished his
chairmanship of the Toronto Historical Board but remains
a member. Many members of the staff, both curatorial
and non-curatorial, served on Museum and University
committees and gave lectures or talks to many groups,
both professional and amateur. Dr. Kenyon has been
engaged in preparing film coverage of some of our
Ontario projects and has been adviser to the Indian Band
at Moose Factory in their project of rebuilding that
Hudson’s Bay post. Dr. Tushingham has been elected
Vice-President of the newly incorporated Canadian
Archaeological Institute at Athens and is Chairman of a
committee planning a symposium on ‘‘The Uses of
Archaeology”, sponsored by the Royal Society of
Canada, to be held at ROM in October 1976. He has also
been given responsibility for much of the planning of the
projected ‘‘Gold of Peru” exhibition, planned for the
autumn of 1976.

As of July 1 , 1 974, Drs. Kenyon and Pendergast became
full Curators and Mr. Pryor an Assistant Curator. The
Board has already approved the promotion of Dr. Storck
to Associate Curator as of July 1 , 1 975.

The staff of this Office wishes to express its appreciation
for the support given by the Administration and Board of
the Museum to the programme of field archaeology for
which the ROM has become well known throughout
Canada and the world. To those private individuals and
foundations— particularly the Canada Council— that have
supplemented the Museum’s own research funds we
extend our thanks; we know from experience that our
directors and students working at home and abroad
perform their quasi-ambassadorial function for the ROM
and Canada in a worthy manner.

Canadiana Department

Donald Blake Webster, Curator

During the 1 974-75 fiscal year the Canadiana Department
has pursued its usual multiplicity of functions, with its
usual ration of external pressures and frustrations. We
have, all told, enjoyed some awaited successes,
experienced some minor disasters, and generally had an
unadventurous year.

Publications

Certainly our longest-awaited accomplishments were the
publication of Mrs. Allodi’s two-volume catalogue,
Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the Royal
Ontario Museum, by the Museum aided by a grant from
the Xerox Corporation, and of the Curator’s compilation,
The Book of Canadian Antiques, by McGraw-Hill
Ryerson. Both were appropriately launched at book
parties in the Canadiana galleries in October.

Special Exhibitions

As always, quarterly exhibitions were arranged by Mrs.
Ignatieff and Mrs. Allodi in the South Gallery. They were
“Niagara Falls” from June 22 to October 1 ; “A Vision of
the Land” from October 5 to Janary 3; “Canontoriana”
(early maps of Canada) from January 1 0 to April 6; and
“York and the Home District, 1 790-1835” from April 1 0
to June 16. These special exhibitions, which require
considerable advance planning and effort, are
unfortunately seldom listed in various popular guides and
are never specifically reviewed. There is thus no reason
to suspect that this regular changing of exhibitions has
any effect on attendance figures.

Loans-out and Outreach

Items from the collections have gone in a total of 20
loans to— among others— the Niagara Parks
Commission, the University of Guelph, Battlefield House,
the Art Gallery of Ontario, Campbell House, the
Smithsonian Institution, the University of Toronto, the
Peel and Hastings County museums, the Oswego County
(N.Y.) Historical Society, the Dundas Historical Society,
and the Carborundum Museum at Niagara Falls (N.Y.).

Under the provincial Outreach and Festival Ontario
programmes, the reconstituted travelling exhibitions
“Sporting Life in Canada” and “Steam and Sail” have
travelled to Owen Sound, Fort Frances, Sudbury, the Peel
County Museum, and Thunder Bay. Three new
circulating exhibitions are in progress. Travelling
exhibitions, for years circulated by the Art Gallery of
Ontario, are now being circulated instead by the
Museum’s Extension Services Department. The new
provincial programmes have, unnecessarily, created a
certain competitiveness between the ROM and the AGO
in this regard.

Since January the Department has been planning and
preparing material for the imminent Extension Services
Outreach loan to the Windsor Art Gallery. This will be
displayed in a large new gallery containing cases of
Canadian ceramics, glass, woodenware, and ironware,
with sections devoted to Maritimes, Quebec, and Ontario

furniture and furnishings. In addition there will be a new
circulating picture exhibition, “European Elegance in
Colonial Canada”.

With the completion of the Windsor gallery and the new
travelling exhibitions we are, for practical purposes, out
of the Outreach large exhibition business. Approximately
80% of the reserve furniture collection will then be on
extended loan, as well as 50% of other reserve
collections and all such secondary pictures as we will
allow to travel in this way. The rest is either essential to
the collections, or not of sufficient general interest or
quality for exhibition.

Teaching and Lecturing

The annual University of Toronto undergraduate
commitment (FAR 426) was shared with the European
and Textile departments, and included 1 1 Canadiana
sessions, handled largely by Miss Holmes. The Curator
enjoyed an off-year from his graduate course (1445), but
acted as M.A. dissertation supervisor for three
Museology students.

The staff delivered a total of 59 evening lectures both to
the public and to special groups during the fall, winter,
and spring, as well as teaching and giving other in-house
talks and brief expositions. Their travels ranged across
southern Ontario from Sault Ste. Marie to Petrolia to
Cobourg, and also into western New York State, and the
Curator visited Harvard University.

Gifts and Purchases

Gifts, some multiple, came from 33 individuals during the
year. Most notable were a fine J.J. Kenyon primitive
portrait of the horse Faraud from Mr. and Mrs. Phil
Hellerman, a Verner landscape from Mrs. Talbot Grubbe,
a fine Quebec weathercock and carved angel from Mr.
and Mrs. O.D. Vaughan, five watercolours from Mrs.

Helen Sutherland, the silver-hilted sword of Maj. Robert
Rogers (commander, Rogers Rangers, 1 756-60) from
Col. R.T.L. Rogers, and a unique Nova Scotia
earthenware milk bowl from Mrs. William McGill.

In addition, the library received a gift of 1 00 volumes of a
series reproduction ot early and rare books of North
America from Miss Holmes’ father, Mr. B.T. Holmes, and
a large group of back periodicals, including Apollo,
Antiques, Connoisseur, and Connaissance des Arts, from
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harold Crang.

Purchases to the end of April totalled 1 1 2, comprising
some 350 new acquisitions for a total expenditure of
$1 6,698. This figure is incomplete for the fiscal year,
since at that time several other major acquisitions were
being considered or under negotiation. Total expenditure,
however, will be considerably less than in 1 973-74, in
part because our reduced Purchase Trust allocation this
year has necessitated greater selectivity.

Other factors as well have affected our collecting. First,

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the Costello gift (reported last year), added to our already
sizeable collection of Quebec furniture, has greatly
lessened the need for further collecting in that most
expensive area, except for very occasional important
pieces. Secondly, fewer objects of the quality and
significance we require have come on the market
recently. This development reflects the popular trend to
art and antique collecting as an investment, in place of
other, more traditional, personal investments, which have
been suffering for various reasons. Thirdly, the Canadian
antiques market is hyper-inflated by any standard, and
we have this year declined a number of desirable
offerings solely because of the prices asked. We also
suspect that high prices are attracting the importation of
similar or superficially indistinguishable U.S. and
Continental antiques, which have a tendency to become
"Canadian” after a few transactions.

Library Purchases

Library acquisitions this year numbered some 270 new
titles, for a total expenditure of $2,578. Of this, $450
came from the annual library allocation, and the excess
from the Samuel T rust and the gift of Mr. B. T. Holmes.

Archaeology

During July and August David Newlands began a new
excavation project at the Egmondville Pottery at
Egmondville, Ontario. In September and October the Fort
York excavation programme, in cooperation with the
Toronto Historical Board, continued for its second year.
Both projects are due for completion, and the Fort York
project for publication also, in late 1 975.

Reconstruction, drawing, and assessment of great
quantities of sherds from the Burns Pottery at Clinton and
from the Egmondville Pottery were carried on through the
fall and winter by Nancy Willson, assisted by a Members’
Committee volunteer, Frances MacArthur.

Other Activities

David Newlands has been a prime mover and fund-raiser
in the group formed to stabilize and restore the Society of
Friends Meeting House built at Newmarket in 1822
( Rotunda , Fall 1 974). Mrs. Ignatieff has served on the
committees for the internal restoration and furnishing of
the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse and the Sir William
Campbell House. The Curator has been deeply involved
in the detailed planning and drafting of the new federal
Bill C-33, the Cultural Property Export and Import Act.

Staff Change

Phil T. Dunning III resigned as Technician II in November
to take a new post as Director-Curator of the recently
restored Montgomery Inn in Etobicoke. Susan (Mrs. Alan)
Richardson joined the staff as Technician I in December.

Attendance

Canadiana Building attendance figures decreased
inexplicably from June 1 , 1 974 to May 31,1 975 to a total
of 34,1 56. This represents a drop of 2,657 from the
36,81 3 visitors recorded for the same period in 1 973-74.

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Marked pieces from the Huron Pottery collection of Egmondville,
Ontario are the product of one of Ontario’s most interesting pioneer
industries.

Public Service

During the last few years, the demand on the Department
for public service responses of all kinds has steadily
increased. This external service function, in spite of the
restrictions instituted last fall, is very much a growth
industry; it is causing increasing strain and shows no
signs of slackening. The staff remains the same, six full¬
time and two part-time people. Of all the specific
functions of the Department, individual service is by all
odds the most time-consuming.

During the course of the year we have had an estimated
500 visitors with specific queries about objects or
research, and another 500 letters that required answers,
often after brief researching. Phone calls from the public
seeking information total probably 1 ,200-1 ,500 per
year. We filled 71 photograph requests from Information
Services, and as many more directly for academic or
exhibition research purposes. Visits from picture and
illustration researchers, which often precede photograph
requests, number some 40 to 50 a year, and are
particularly time-consuming, often requiring several hours
and occasionally several days of a staff member’s
attention.

The Department some time ago reached the point at
which its public-service function and its scholarly
functions of teaching, researching, and writing militate
against one another in a competition for time and
attention that prevents us from realizing our full potential
in either area. During the next few months we shall be
taking a hard look at this problem created by our dual
role in the search for some effective solution.

Conservation Department

B. Leech, Associate Curator-in-charge

I am pleased to report that the operation of the
conservation/museology training centre is now supported
out of the general Museum budget and that the staff has
been transferred to permanent status. This meant that the
full-time staff complement reached 1 3, with the effective
complement at times reaching 20, again including
Museology students, interns, summer students, and
volunteers. Nevertheless, the departure of a number of
our staff members leaves us still with a shortage.
Consequently, although the training-centre staff, assisted
by other members of the Department, were able to
provide much more comprehensive instruction to the
Museology students and others, and valuable experience
was gained, we are still unable to realize the full potential
of the centre for conservation practice and instruction.

Work has proceeded on the improvement of conditions
for paper and textiles conservation in the main laboratory.
However, as of this date, the renovations are not yet
complete, paper conservation has ceased, and only a
limited amount of textile conservation on smaller pieces
has been possible.

We are again most grateful to Dr. Mandarino and the
Mineralogy Department for providing some essential
analytical services.

Research— Analytical

I regret to report that the technical study of the Chinese
bronze weapons will have to wait until the spectrograph
can be brought back into use.

We continue to be indebted to Professor U. Franklin, who
has continued to pursue the technical investigation of
many objects from various departments.

Although no Museum samples, to my knowledge, have
been forwarded to Dr. J. Mackay at Ryerson for carbon
dating, many private enquiries directed to him have
resulted in further progress.

Some macro- and micro-chemical analyses and
identifications have been carried out, often in cooperation
with Mineralogy. Further progress is impossible because
of the shortage of staff. The administrative duties alone of
the Curator leave no time for technical scientific study.

Research— Galleries and Storage Areas

More extensive records of temperature, humidity, and
lighting have been obtained, and these will provide
valuable data for the engineers and architects planning
Museum expansion and renovation.

Some improvements to galleries have been made,
notably the gallery for the new European collections.
Continuous records of this area should provide a useful
pilot study for the engineers.

As more rehabilitative work is done on such objects as

furniture and ethnographies, so does the need for
appropriate climate control increase so that such work
will not ultimately be reversed and thus wasted. During
the year we have experienced an increase in biological
threats to the collections from moths, beetles, silverfish,
cockroaches, etc., and the number of fumigations
performed has more than doubled. Again, rigorous
housekeeping, including the maintenance of residual
levels of protection, can help to control these problems.

Conservation Laboratories

Over 1 ,600 objects are recorded as having received
treatment, and over 2,700 as having been given
condition reports.

The Curator, assisted by specially selected staff
members, was heavily invoived in the preparations for
and the maintenance of The Chinese Exhibition.

Following the successful conclusion of the exhibition,
preparations were begun to receive the new European
collections and to prepare them for display. Although
many staff members were involved, special credit is due
to Susan Wilson who, after Thom Gentle had left, brought
the furniture up to display condition.

One major item to receive treatment by Elizabeth
Phillimore in preparation for loan to the American
Bicentennial exhibitions in 1976 was West’s “Death of
Wolfe”. Since the Museum lacks facilities for the handling
and treatment of such a large canvas, these were made
available by the Art Gallery of Ontario, to whom we are
most grateful.

Lectures

Senior members of the Department continued to give
both public and professional lectures during the year in
various parts of the North American continent. The
course “Ceramics for the Collector”, given primarily by
staff in Conservation, continued to be a most popular
course and is to be increased in length and scope.

Services to the Public

Requests and queries have increased again, and a
modest estimate would be that we are handling more
than 1 50 queries each week.

Training Centre at 79, Scollard Street

After a most promising beginning, with increased
instruction to Museology students, various workshop
groups, and interns funded by the national museum
policy, it becomes necessary to report that the level of
instructional activities reached during 1974-75 cannot be
maintained with our present staff complement.

In spite of limiting circumstances, our main priority, which
is to service the needs of the collections, is being
maintained, if somewhat precariously. However, it is only
by involving departmental technicians, under supervision,
that all the work demands can be met.

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Egyptian Department

N.B. Millet, Curator

The two major projects reported in previous years are
still in train. These are:

1 ) Preparation for publication of the Gebel Adda
excavation results. This is the responsibility of N.B. Millet,
and has involved among other things a considerable
amount of repair and conservation work on the objects
themselves, as well as work on the excavation records,
also held in the ROM. This work has been proceeding
since the arrival of the material here in 1 972, and has
involved various other staff members, both permanent
and part-time.

2) Preparation for publication of the results of ten years’
survey and excavation in Sudanese Nubia. This is the
responsibility of A.J. Mills, who carried out the work
while in the employ of UNESCO, from 1 962 to 1 972. He
is aided in this project by A.L. Hollett, departmental
technician.

In addition, three other short-term projects were launched
or resumed during the fiscal year 1 974-75. These were:

3) The Gebel Adda Textile Project, officially known as
the “Ancient Nubian Textiles Project”, a 1 2-month
programme inaugurated in September 1974 and financed
with a Canada Council grant. Mr. Mark Burnham, textile
expert and conservator, has carried out the basic work of
conservation and study with the assistance of Janet
Lautenschlager. Consultation is provided by the Textiles
Department of the ROM and the Department of Food
Sciences, University of Toronto.

4) The autopsy, in collaboration with the Academy of
Medicine (Toronto), the University of Toronto, and the
Palaeopathology Association (Detroit), of a ROM mummy
of known provenance and identity (910.4.3). This
involved the whole Egyptian Department and occurred in
August 1974 at the Medical Sciences Building, U. of T.
Research on the results will continue for some time. Dr.
Howard Savage of the Ornithology Department was also
involved, and the Entomology Department was consulted
on the insect parasites found. The Textile Department
has also been of considerable help in this project.

5) Final stages of the preparation of An Archaeological
Map of the Sudan, a long-term project of Mr. Mills and his
East German colleague Friedrich Hinkel, which had been
set aside by both co-authors under the pressure of other
duties. It is now active again and is reaching the final
manuscript stage. Much assistance has been provided by
Mrs. Annette Gromow, Department Secretary.

Excavations

Because of the need for publication of earlier excavations
carried out by the two curators (under auspices other
than those of the ROM), no field work is in progress. The
Department does, however, contribute to two current
excavations being carried on by other agencies, one in
Egypt (the Saqqara excavation by the Egypt Exploration
Society of Great Britain), the other in the Sudan (the
excavation of Meroe by the University of Calgary and the

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University of Khartoum). The contributions are in the form
of funds, in return for which we receive a proportion of
the finds after division with local authorities.

Other Projects

N.B. Millet continues (when time allows) his work on the
decipherment of the ancient Meroitic language of the
Sudan. A.J. Mills, in addition to the work outlined above,
is also preparing for publication the results of the Egypt
Exploration Society’s excavation in the cemeteries of
Ibrim in 1 962. Mr. A. Hollett is doing the drawings for the
report. Both curators and Mr. R. Leprohon, Research
Assistant, are involved in an endeavour to republish the
famous Punt relief at Deir el-Bahri, of which the ROM has
a massive cast made by C.T. Currelly.

Work on the Collections

A. Hollett, departmental technician, is engaged in the
task of conserving by chemical treatment the numerous
stone objects from the Adda site, under the guidance of
M. Burnham and with the general supervision of the
Conservation Department. During the summer of 1 974,
Janet Lautenschlager, as a member of Operation
Museum Catalogue, catalogued a large group of wooden
figurines and fragments thereof. Mr. Ronald J. Leprohon,
as a member of Experience ’74 ROM Research, acted as
research assistant. Miss Annie Storr, a volunteer during
the summer of 1974, continued to document and arrange
the slide collection. Mrs. Annette Gromow, Department
Secretary, catalogued and filed offprints and cared for the
growing library of the Department. Mr. Allyn Kelley,
Research Assistant, prepared a massive pottery corpus
from the existing published corpora. He also represented
the ROM at the International Conference on Pottery at
Cairo in April.

Purchases

This year the Department acquired a painted wooden
panel, some 22 inches long, of the 3rd or 4th century
A.D., bearing an interesting representation of a winged
goddess of the Aphrodite type (presumably a Hellenized
Isis) reclining on a couch with drinking vessels and
attended by a cup-bearer and a flutist. The panel was
part of a larger object whose nature is debatable, but it
was perhaps a deep wooden triptych. The representation
connects the object with one of the synodoi or religious
societies which also served as drinking clubs, a
characteristic institution of Egypt in the Roman and early
Byzantine period.

Galleries

The Department has, in conjunction with the West Asian
Department, reclaimed a small storage area near the
Cypriote Corridor for display purposes. This small gallery
is to be used by the two departments in turn for the
mounting of small shows of a topical nature, for two or
three months at a time. Included will be recent
acquisitions, research results, etc. The first such display
was that of the autopsied mummy, along with the
garments recovered from the body and an exposition of

Autopsy of Nakht. Foreground, left to right: Dr. N.B. Millet, Mr. A.J. Mills, Mr. J. Vollmer.

the preliminary medical results of the project, under the
title of “Autopsy of an Egyptian Working Man”.

Other Activities

Both curators hold teaching cross-appointments in the
Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of
Toronto. Each taught one full graduate course and part of
an undergraduate course, as well as supervising
students, etc. In November Dr. Millet and Mr. Mills
attended the annual meeting of the American Research
Center in Egypt, where Dr. Millet gave a paper consisting
of a “Progress Report on the Decipherment of Meroitic”.
Dr. Millet is a member of the Board of Governors of the
Center, was a member of the Executive Committee until
the November meeting, and serves also as Chairman of
the Center’s Archaeological and Research Expeditions

Committee. He also attended a Governors’ meeting in
May. In April Dr. Millet and Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Burnham
went to Egypt as part of the Textiles Project, a trip which
involved a stay of some three weeks and work in the
Cairo, Islamic, and Coptic Museums.

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Department of Ethnology

H. Fuchs, Associate Curator

The Department of Ethnology has continued its operation
much as in the past years and in addition has opened the
new Northwest Coast Gallery. Services to government,
to the public, and to Native people were notably
increased. At the same time working conditions, storage
facilities, and documentation of our holdings were
upgraded.

Gifts, Purchases, and Loans

Fifty-five gifts have been received by the Department,
including North American Indian, Bolivian, and African
material, as well as a collection of 30 items from the New
Hebrides donated by the Resident General in Port Vila
through the good offices of the World Crafts Council.

Purchases were mainly the works of contemporary Cree
and Ojibwa painters such as Saul Williams, Del Ashkewe,
Roy Thomas, John Laford, and Johnson Meekis. Other
purchased material included 88 ethnographic items from
New Guinea, Paraguay, and Brazil.

Fourteen loans were made during the year to various
institutions, art galleries, libraries, museums, centres, and
associations. An exhibition of African sculpture at York
University Art Gallery in connection with the Annual
Conference of the Canadian Association of African
Studies was of particular interest. For this occasion Dr.
Zdenka Volavkova prepared the catalogue Dialogues:
African Culture from Toronto Collections.

The collections were being utilized increasingly by
universities for research and as an aid in teaching. During
the year several students from the Department of Visual
Arts at York University and from the Department of
Anthropology at McMaster University made extensive
use of our resources. They studied objects at first hand
and wrote their respective theses on the material.

Galleries and Care of Collections

The redesigned Northwest Coast Gallery is now open.
The display comprises 1 4 wall cases and a habitat group
depicting household equipment, weaving, wood-working,
clothing, subsistence and travel, warfare, winter
ceremonies, modern crafts, masks, and potlatch and
religious practices.

In addition, our African gallery was upgraded in both
content and appearance and an area of 238 square feet
of gallery space reopened for public use. Four manikins
were installed in front of the entrance door to the
Department depicting characteristic costumes of Eastern
Subarctic Naskapi, a West Coast Indian dancer, a Plains
Indian woman, and Iroquois Chief John Tecumseh Henry.
The formerly dispersed Eskimo showcases were
concentrated into one area for better comprehension of
the cultural context by the general public and for teaching
purposes. This reshuffling freed an area around the
entrance to the Ethnology Department which is at present
used as a gallery for paintings of the Cree and Ojibwa
School of Ontario Artists.

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Thanks to the donation of material and construction costs
for a wall by Mr. Louis Rice of Maple, Ontario, a new
modern storage facility was created. This room holds a
total of 1 ,273 items related to the culture history of the
Indian peoples of Canada. In addition, the storage
facilities for our South American collections, now
together in one room, were consolidated.

More than 600 specimens were catalogued, bringing our
catalogues up to date, retroactive to 1 970.

Lectures, Teaching, and Museumobile

Basil Johnston taught an Ojibwa language course to 1 5
students. He delivered lectures on more than a dozen
occasions at centres in the Province of Ontario.

Miss Mary Fitz-Gibbon gave lectures at galleries,
hospitals, and health centres in Metro Toronto.

Dr. E.S. Rogers and M. Black attended the annual
meeting of the American Anthropological Association in
Mexico City at the end of November. Dr. Rogers
prepared a paper for the meetings of the Canadian
Sociology and Anthropology Association held in Toronto
in August.

Dr. Fuchs conducted a guided tour to museums and
historical sites in Peru and Ecuador attended by 22
participants.

During the year the Museumobile visited 65 centres,
federal schools and reserves, and integrated schools in
communities near reserves. Our experienced driver-
mechanic-lecturers, Gene Bebamash and Ross Johnston,
deserve to be commended for bringing the ROM
Ethnology Department to 21 ,090 residents of Ontario.

Field Work, Research, and Publications

For much of his past sabbatical, Dr. E.S. Rogers jointly
with Dr. Mary Black, conducted ethno-historical research
among the Weagamow Ojibwa. This field work was the
culmination of 1 7 years of study of this community by
Drs. Black and Rogers.

Mr. Basil Johnston finished the manuscript Ojibwa
Viewpoints of Life, now in press. In addition, he
published almost a dozen articles on Native topics in
Canadian journals during this year. He continued to
enlarge our tape collection of Native stories and histories,
which in due time will result in published contributions.

Miss Fitz-Gibbon and Mr. Richard Daly did all the
necessary research work related to the new Northwest
Coast Gallery.

Dr. Zdenka Volavkova, assisted by her students,
continued detailed scientific cataloguing of our African
holdings.

Mrs. Sonja Koerner under the supervision of Dr. Fuchs

Figure of a shaman (priest) of the Haida tribe. He wears a bear-claw crown, cedar-bark neck-ring and armlet, and bone “spirit tube", and carries a
ceremonial staff. The ear-pendants are ivory and the nose ornament is of abalone shell. In his right hand is a ceremonial rattle.

worked as a volunteer on the Ethnological Bibliography
of Venezuela , near completion as of this date. Three
members of the Members’ Committee, Mrs. Ruth
Freeman, Mrs. Jacqueline Kniewasser, and Mrs. Shirley
Bohnen, worked on the project “Animals in the Art of
Modern Cree and Ojibwa Painters”. We take this
opportunity to thank these volunteers for their continued
support and cooperation.

Personnel

Some personnel changes occurred during the fiscal
period. Mrs. Kathleen Wood resigned from her position in
the Museum after 1 5 years of service. Mrs. Maria Parish,
Department Secretary, resigned for family reasons, but
remains available as summer help during the vacation
period. When Mr. Gene Bebamash resigned, the
Museumobile schedule was adjusted to accommodate
the new driver, Mr. Ross Johnston. To all former
department members our gratitude and best wishes are
extended.

Bequests, Donations, and Grants

The Department gratefully acknowledges bequests,
donations, or grants from the following: Mr. W.F.

Baldwin, Miss Beverley Baxter, Mr. Christopher R.
Calvert, the London Public Library Art Museum, Mrs.
A.H. Melsom, Mr. Louis Rice, Mr. G.N. Saunders, Mrs.
Jean Laidlaw Shields, Mr. W.A. Sturgess, M. Plenry
Vallet, and Mrs. H. Welch.

European Department

H. Hickl-Szabo, Curator

All members of the Department have been active in
research during the year. Mr. Hickl-Szabo continued his
work on glass, which he intends to publish, and on
miniatures. Mrs. Bacso studied a 19th-century Sevres
porcelain vase and English earthenware transfer-printed in
the Japanese style; the results will be published. She
also did research work on an 1 8th-century English
inventory. Mr. Cselenyi worked on Romanesque
Campanian capitals, on the R.S. Williams family in
Canadian music, and on our collection of playing cards,
resulting in publication and display. Mr. Keeble has
continued his study of bronzes and other Italian
sculpture, and of maiolica, faience, and Delft. Mr.

Kaellgren worked on a variety of subjects for cataloguing.

Lectures

Members of the Department have been equally active as
lecturers. Thirty-five lectures were given by Mrs. Bacso
and Mr. Hickl-Szabo to third- and fourth-year U. of T.
students in Course 422, of which Mr. Hickl-Szabo is in
charge. Mr. Hickl-Szabo gave two lectures to Museology
students and several to the Members’ Committee. Mrs.
Bacso lectured twice for the night course “Ceramics for
the Collector”, organized by Mr. Leech. Mr. Cselenyi
gave three lectures on our print collection to Ontario
College of Art students, and a seminar on icons to the
Education Department. He also supervised and instructed
a number of University of Toronto students. Mr. Keeble
gave a series of lectures to the Women’s Committee and
lectured on Renaissance bronzes at the University of
Manitoba in January. Mr. Kaellgren lectured at the Art
Gallery of Ontario and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and
gave several lectures on antiques to night-school
courses. Under Mr. Hickl-Szabo’s supervision he also
assisted a Museology student with her thesis on our
collection of iron work.

The Galleries

Gallery work has kept the Department busy. Mr. Hickl-
Szabo had to disperse the material in Gallery 9 to make
room for the Central European display of art treasures.

Mrs. Bacso planned a major renovation of Gallery 1 0 and
expanded the English silver displays; she also worked
with the Design Department on exhibits for the cafeteria
and for the cases in front of the building. Mr. Cselenyi
made some improvements in the musical instruments
display and in Gallery 5. Mr. Keeble remounted the
maiolica in Gallery 6 and improved the maintenance of
the arms and armour collection. Miss Campbell arranged
two displays of medals.

Exhibitions and Loans

The exhibition “Florentine Baroque Bronzes and Other
Objects of Art” and its catalogue, both initiated by Mr.
Hickl-Szabo, were a great success. “Victoriana 1 837-
1870", which was supervised by Mr. Hickl-Szabo and
arranged by Mr. Kaellgren, was exhibited in the third-floor
Rotunda in April.

A number of loans were arranged under the supervision
of Mr. Hickl-Szabo. Mrs. Bacso prepared a loan of
Victoriana for the University of Minnesota in the autumn,
and for the University of Guelph in June. Mr. Cselenyi

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Diana. Bronze, French, School of Fontainebleau. Late 16th century.

arranged two loans: one of a print by J.B. Jackson to
Queen’s University for its exhibition “Prints and People”,
and one of four musical instruments to the North York
Public Library. Mr. Keeble arranged one loan of bronzes
and another of tin enamel pottery to the Royal Bank of
Canada. Mr. Kaellgren arranged a loan for the Art Gallery
of Ontario exhibition “Chairs”, and also loans of
mediaeval objects to the Cloisters in New York, of
ceramics to the Caledonia Library and Museum, and of a
Lalique vase of 1 925 to a travelling exhibit sponsored by
Rothmans. In addition, he assisted Museology students
with the assembly of loan material for their travelling
cases.

Public Service

Public service has engaged the entire curatorial staff to
some extent. Mr. Hickl-Szabo has been busy preparing
for the new collaboration with the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Mr. Cselenyi advised colleagues about musical
instruments and aided in the identification of nine
instruments in the University of Guelph’s collection. Mr.
Keeble is working with a colleague in Winnipeg on the
stained glass windows of Henry Holiday. He and Mr.
Kaellgren worked on the Ontario Museum Association
Newsletter and attended the Ontario Museum
Association conference at Niagara-on-the-Lake in the fall.

The curatorial staff identified nearly 1 ,000 objects for the
public, and sent at least as many letters to people who
wrote for information.

Travel and Other Activities

Mr. Hickl-Szabo travelled to London, Paris, and Vienna to
view the art market, and thanks to Mrs. Early’s generosity
he acquired a French bronze figure of Diana for the
Museum. In April he went to London to select furniture,
whose purchase was funded by a gift from the Garfield
Weston Foundation; and at that time he also acquired a
bronze by Alessandro Vittoria.

Mr. Cselenyi completed a course in the Graduate School
on Ottonian Illumination, and gained his third credit.

Mr. Hickl-Szabo recommended the promotion of Jean
Bacso to Associate Curator, and of Corey Keeble to
Assistant Curator.

Acquisitions

Important accessions included Mrs. Ellen Garde
Shepley’s bequest of 358 souvenir spoons; a bloodstone
hippopotamus (perhaps by Faberge) and an early
Baroque bronze horse from Mr. John Schorscher; a
breakfront cabinet given by Miss Cornelia Osborne; Mr.
Ian Ross’s fruitwood relief of the Conversion of Saul; Mr.
Norman Bell’s soft paste porcelain Chelsea sauce boat;
three 20th-century glass tables from Mrs. O.D. Vaughan;
and a Russian enamel teaset and a Bohemian vase from
Dr. Henry Goldenberg. Outstanding purchases were an
1 8th-century blue glass bowl and a fine miniature by
Menuisier; an Italian soft paste porcelain group; a French
Renaissance bronze of Diana; a Bow figurine, a Derby
figurine, and a Derby figurine candlestick; fine French
silver sugar-tongs and potpourri jar; a large Vienna vase
and two Italian bisque figurines; a Meissen figurine; and
the above-mentioned bronze figure of Winter by
Alessandro Vittoria.

Far Eastern Department

Hsio-Yen Shih, Curator

The Department was fully occupied with the great loan
exhibition “Archaeological Finds of the People’s Republic
of China” through 1 974. Since a separate report is
submitted for that monumental enterprise, which involved
the entire Museum, only the Department’s particular
contributions to its support programmes will be cited
below. The activities so specified reveal but a portion of
what was demanded of every staff member in the
Department through the months when so many visitors
from outside Toronto, Ontario, and even Canada
discovered the extent of our permanent holdings and the
facilities we provide for the study of Asian archaeology
and art history.

Since the beginning of 1975 the Department has
resumed its regular and continuing schedule of work.

Both our study rooms have undergone reconstruction to
make better use of their limited space, and to provide
more efficient storage of reserve materials. Our work on
inventory of the collections, for the first time since their
accession in the last half-century, is a necessary adjunct
to this re-ordering.

Exhibitions

A number of satellite displays drawn from our holdings
were especially created to reinforce The Chinese
Exhibition. Both the Royal Bank and the Toronto-
Dominion Centre exhibited Chinese objects. The
Museum subway kiosk held examples of roof tiles against
a background of Peking roofs in photographic
enlargement. The Museum’s outside showcases
exhibited Ch’ing Dynasty porcelains. Various areas within
the Museum were used for other small exhibits: snuff
bottles from the Cochrane Collection on loan from the
Ontario Heritage Foundation in the Members’ Lounge,
blue and white porcelains in the main cafeteria, a garden
setting in the third-floor Rotunda and, in the Far Eastern
galleries, “Folk Arts of Old and New China” in Gallery 1 6
and “Courtly Arts of China” in the Lacquer Court.

Only a month after The Chinese Exhibition, the
Department prepared its own major exhibition of the
year. “Images of 18th-Century Japan: Ukiyoe Prints from
the Sir Edmund Walker Collection” had a most
successful opening on April 8 and was shown through
May 25. A scholarly catalogue of the 1 71 woodblock
prints exhibited, prepared by Professor David
Waterhouse, a member of the University of Toronto’s
Department of East Asian Studies and a Research
Associate in our Department, has been handsomely
published in hardcover and paperback to form a
permanent record, as well as a basic source for research
in this field of Japanese art.

The Department lent objects to a number of exhibitions
elsewhere, including “Chairs” at the Art Gallery of
Ontario; a display of Japanese masks and musical
instruments during April at Harridge’s; “Ming-ch’i: Clay
Figures Reflecting Life in Ancient China” at the Katonah
Gallery (New York State); “The Japanese Theatre in Art”
at the O’Keefe Centre; "Arts of the T’ang Dynasty” at the
Meadow Brook Art Gallery of Oakland University
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travelling exhibit of Museology— Extension Services; and
“Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages” at the Victoria
and Albert Museum (London, U.K.).

Lectures

Again, The Chinese Exhibition made enormous demands
on time and energy. The Bishop White Committee
sponsored a special series on Chinese archaeology, to
which all curatorial staff contributed. In addition, requests
from organizations and media throughout Ontario were
met with the help of all Chinese specialists in the
Department, various staff members travelling to Barrie,
Hamilton, Kingston, and Ottawa, as well as within Metro.

Other addresses given by members of the Department
were more closely related to their own areas of study or
special interest. H.Y. Shih read a paper at the College Art
Association of America annual meeting in Washington,
D.C.; gave lectures at Yale University and to the
Vancouver Society for Asian Art; was keynote speaker at
the British Columbia Chinese Youth Conference; and
participated in symposia for New College and the
Students’ Administrative Council of the University of
Toronto. B. Stephen spoke to the Metal Arts Guild of
Toronto. D. Dohrenwend lectured at the Lyceum Club
Women’s Art Association of Peterborough. P. Proctor
spoke to the Hamilton Potters’ Guild and the National
Gallery’s Tour Group to China, as well as to the
Women’s Auxiliary of Toronto Western Hospital. C.H.

Hsu contributed to a seminar of the Beckenham and
Bromley Branch of the Historical Association in London,
England. T. Quirk introduced the Japanese print
exhibition to the Friends of the ROM.

Teaching

H.Y. Shih, B. Stephen, and D. Dohrenwend held cross¬
appointments to the Department of East Asian Studies of
the University of Toronto, offering two graduate seminars
and contributing to two undergraduate courses. C.H. Hsu
was invited to give special classes on Chinese epigraphy
and language in a course supervised by Professor C.C.
Shih of the same department.

The Department made its usual contribution to the
Museology programme, with an additional offering by B.
Stephen on the organization of The Chinese Exhibition.

D. Dohrenwend, P. Proctor, and T. Quirk continued
special orientation sessions for the Women’s Committee
Touring Group and the Education Department.

Research and Travel

For obvious reasons, this was hardly a year to encourage
specialized studies The Department managed to
continue such work, however, drawing time in fits and
starts. H.Y. Shih completed two articles on southeast
Chinese Neolithic archaeology and recent textile finds in
China. B. Stephen and S. Irwin continued examination of
Chinese Bronze Age weapons. D. Dohrenwend pursued
her studies of Chinese jades and bronze mirror designs
and has added Chinese glass to her sphere of interests.

P. Proctor has developed her work in the field of
southeast Asian ceramics. C.H. Hsu completed his study
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Avalokitesvara. Bronze. India, 10th century.

of the Menzies Collection of oracle bones, edited a
volume on oracle bones from the Bishop White and other
collections, and began work on Chinese non-ferrous
metallurgy in cooperation with Professor U.M. Franklin of
the University of Toronto’s Department of Metallurgy and
Material Science. T. Quirk has begun to make sense of
our very large collection of Japanese woodblock prints.

Special study trips were taken by D. Dohrenwend to
study jades in London and Stockholm; by P. Proctor to
extend her knowledge of South Asia; and by C.H. Hsu to
examine oracle bones in the United Kingdom, as well as
to research sources at Cambridge University.

Greek and Roman
Department

Neda Leipen, Curator

Far Eastern Library

During the year a total of 671 books, periodicals, and
pamphlets were accessioned, and 622 titles were
catalogued. Holdings now number 1 5,522 volumes. The
drop in the number of acquisitions as compared to the
last fiscal year may be attributed to marked increases in
subscription rates and book prices.

The introduction of information in the original scripts for
Chinese and Japanese books has depended heavily
upon work from departmental staff; notably C.H. Hsu, G.
Whincup, and T. Quirk. Occasional assistance has also
come from R. Lake of the Education Department. Mrs. M.
Byrd has been invaluable on the clerical side. The need
for specialized aid in bibliographic work and calligraphy is
keenly felt, as volunteers are not always available and
often cannot serve in these areas.

Gifts and Purchases

As our acquisition funds diminish in purchasing power,
we are all the more grateful for the generosity of donors.
Not only their benefactions, but also the cooperation of
collector-lenders, have contributed greatly to our gallery
displays. We particularly wish to express thanks to Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Gustin, who have permitted exhibition of
many Japanese works from their collection.

Special acknowledgment must be given to volunteers in
the Department, who have been of immeasurable aid in
the daily operation of our work during what has often
seemed a frantic period— Mrs. William M. Brown, Mrs.
Harold R.H. Hafner, Mrs. George G.R. Harris, Mrs. D.R.H.
Heather, Mrs. Dorothy Hoover, Mr. Angus Smith, and
Mrs. P.G. Thompson.

Finally, the Department expresses its delight with the
happy relations established during The Chinese
Exhibition between our three Honorary Members and
ourselves. Mr. Liang Tan, Mr. Huang Shih-lin, and Ms.
Chien Hui-lu of the Working Group from the People’s
Republic of China would be welcomed back most warmly
at any time.

During the year our crucial shortage of adequate
working space was alleviated by a stop-gap measure
when a small office was constructed in our storage-
study area off the Greek and Roman galleries on the
second floor. Although that reduced our precious
storage space, it at least provided quieter and less
crowded working quarters for one member of the
curatorial staff.

Collections, Research, Publication

In her new office Alison Easson concentrated on a
long-neglected part of our holdings covering the
immediate post-Roman cultures in Europe and Britain,
the Merovingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Viking. She
researched, catalogued, and directed the cleaning and
conservation of a number of artifacts including
jewellery, weapons, and pottery, and arranged some
comparative displays, particularly in the field of
Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon weaponry. She
continued her long-term project on the decorated
samian pottery in the Romano-British collection, of
which she is in charge.

John Hayes was occupied with pottery in general (his
catalogue of our Roman pottery is in galley proof at the
time of this writing). In preparation for a fascicule of
the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (CVA) he supervised
and directed new photography of most of the Greek
black-figure vases. Much of the rest of the pottery
collection was recatalogued and rearranged in the
process.

The Curator continued her work toward publication of
the marble and bronze sculpture in the departmental
collections. The pieces from the former Curtius
collection received special attention. Earlier in the year
she prepared an article for the projected Festschrift in
memory of Harold Burnham, the late Curator of
Textiles.

Two international research projects involving
publication of our material have been entered into.

With our assistance, Dr. J. Eisinger of Bell
Laboratories, New Jersey, an environmental expert
investigating lead poisoning through history, examined
some of our Roman bronze cooking pots for traces of
the lead lining which was commonly applied. Further
detailed testing continues in close collaboration with
Mr. Leech of the Conservation Department.

The second project concerns Etruscan bronze mirrors
with engraved decoration, of which the Department
possesses an enviable three dozen. They are to be
included in a new international Corpus of such mirrors.
Preparatory to publication a cleaning and freshening-up
of the bronzes was initiated by the Curator.

As in previous years we were again generously
assisted by our Research Associate John Wilkinson, to
whom we are grateful for sorting and itemizing the

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large collection of the coinage of the Constantinian
dynasty. Lloyd Bregman, a student at Queen’s
University, helped us again in the summer and early
fall of 1 974, when, under Mrs. Easson’s supervision, he
organized the storage of our extremely large collection
of over 22,000 billon tetradrachms and bronze issues
minted at Alexandria, Egypt, representing practically
every Roman emperor from Augustus to Diocletian.

In the spring we were able to hire Miss Ruthanne
Ridley as additional assistance on a temporary basis.

Her particular function was to type stencils from the
sheets of catalogue information researched by the
curatorial staff and to transfer the text to the catalogue
cards: these cards are the basic tools for the work on
the collections, as well as essential records for the
office of the Registrar. Similarly, two volunteers, Mrs.

A. Bateman and Mrs. N. McKay of the Members’
Committee, under Mrs. Easson’s direction, typed
stencils for coin catalogue cards exclusively, and
earned our most heartfelt thanks. Much appreciated
through the year was the assistance of Mrs. R.J.

Boxer, also of the Members’ Committee.

Mrs. Jane McCormick, the Department Secretary,
coped patiently and efficiently with the many and
varied demands of the staff. Her forbearance was
appreciated all the more since again no technician was
granted to the Department.

Acquisitions

The Department was fortunate in purchasing two rare
Cypriot animal vases dating from the 7th century B.C.,
which were formerly in the Loch collection (over 300
pieces from the same collection were generously
donated to us in 1965). A remarkable Roman pottery dish
was obtained at auction, and some other smaller items of
terracotta, glass, and metalwork, suitably filling various

John Hayes discusses pottery from
the Stobi excavations, Yugoslavia,
with some of the American and
Yugoslav members of the dig team

gaps in the collections, were purchased. However, with
our very limited acquisition funds as compared to current
market prices, we were unable to compete for the kind of
object that adds true greatness to a collection, though
many such objects, of unimpeachable pedigree and
unquestionable authenticity, become available every
year. Like other archaeological departments, we have
lately concentrated on obtaining, through gift or
purchase, study collections of properly recorded
potsherds from official excavations (Sabratha, T roy).

Field Work, Travel, Research Abroad

John Hayes’ work at Nea Paphos, Cyprus, in the summer
of 1974 was drastically interrupted by the Cypro-Turkish
war in July. The rest of the summer he spent on the St.
Polyeuktos project in Istanbul, sponsored by Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, D.C. In May and June of 1975 he
participated as cataloguer of pottery in a University of
Michigan excavation project at Carthage.

Alison Easson, on a Canada Council research grant,
studied Roman provincial artifacts in Europe, visiting sites
and collections in southern England, St. Germain-en-
Laye, Paris, Germany, and Switzerland.

Mrs. Leipen travelled to New York to visit the spectacular
Scythian and Graeco-Scythian exhibition on loan from the
USSR. In connection with her work on the Greek and
Roman sculpture at the ROM she spent some time
studying the large collection of marbles at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Research Associate Dr. J. Shaw, in cooperation with the
ROM and the University of Toronto, continued with the
preparations for his excavation project at Kommos,

Crete, for which he was able to raise additional funds (a
respectable sum was raised last year). An excellent
topographic survey and map of the site were completed
during the year.

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Philatelic Activities

Fred Stulberg, Honorary Curator

Exhibitions and Loans

Much of the Curator’s time was spent in preparation for a
loan exhibition of Greek and Roman artifacts to tour five
universities in Ontario in the winter and spring of 1975-
76. About four dozen selected objects will illustrate
Greek and Roman daily life, the theme of the exhibition.

The Department lent an object from the Greek collection
to the Art Gallery of Ontario for its exhibition “Chairs”,
and a number of Greek and Roman lamps were
contributed for an exhibit on the history of lighting in the
cases outside the Museum.

Teaching, Lectures, Professional Meetings

The Curator taught a course on Greek terracottas
(University of Toronto class FA320) and one on Greek
sculpture and architecture (University College class
GLL1 50). She acted as chief examiner and supervisor for
an M.A. thesis by D. Greenglass, a graduate student in
Museology and Fine Art. At the annual meetings of the
Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago she read
a paper related to her work on the small bronzes from the
Athenian Agora excavations, and for the University Art
Association of Canada she talked on “Classical tradition
in Early Christian art”. In November she attended the
Canadian meetings of LIMC, an international Lexicon
Iconographicum Mythologise Classicae, sponsored in
Canada jointly by the Classical Association of Canada
and the Humanities Research Council. In June she
attended the annual meetings of the Classical
Association of Canada in Edmonton.

John Hayes took the leading part in a seminar at the
Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor, in connection with
forthcoming excavations at Carthage. He was invited to
an exclusive international table ronde on Roman pottery
at Conimbriga, Portugal, March 24-28.

The entire staff lectured on “Creations in Clay”, a course
based on objects in the departmental collections; the
course has been given repeatedly in the extension
programmes of both the Museum and the University of
Toronto.

Public Service

The staff gave gallery talks to groups of senior citizens,
professional clubs, and student classes. Mrs. Easson and
John Wilkinson identified large numbers of ancient coins
brought in by the public. John Hayes dealt with the
pottery, and the Curator with sculpture, terracottas,
bronzes, gems, and jewellery. The Curator taped a
programme on Pompeii for OECA on Channel 19.

Professional Honours, ROM Committee Service

John Hayes was elected Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of London. Mrs. Leipen served on the
Director’s Promotions Committee and on two ad hoc
committees. The staff submitted reports and took active
part in the planning deliberations on the Museum
expansion and participated in the Board-Staff seminar in
January 1 975.

A major change in the Department occurred in the early
part of 1 975 when Mr. Douglas Patrick left the
curatorship because of a health problem. During his long
years of service he introduced many original and
innovative practices and these, of course, will serve as
guidelines for future operations.

Dr. Fred G. Stulberg, a close friend and associate of Mr.
Patrick, was appointed Honorary Curator of Philately, and
Mr. Patrick was appointed Curator Emeritus.

Special Exhibitions

It has been the practice of the Department to solicit the
loan of special collections for exhibit in the lower
Rotunda for six-week periods. Shown during the past
year were pages from the Douglas Duncan gift collection
of France; pages from a collection of the postage stamps
of China; pages from the Strudley collection of stamps of
Great Britain; stamps of Expo '67; early covers from York
and Toronto; and embroidered postcards of World War I.
For security reasons most contributors asked for
anonymity.

Also on display was a special exhibit of the stamps of
New Zealand prepared by the New Zealand Post Office
and distributed by the Smithsonian Institution.

Lectures and Other Services

From February to June 1 975 the Honorary Curator
presented lectures or papers to the Philatelic Specialists’
Society of Canada, the Toronto Stamp Collectors Club,
the Oxford Philatelic Society, the Postal History Society
of Ontario, the Lakehead Philatelic Society, the Orillia
Philatelic Society, the Ontario Dental Association (at
convention), the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (at
convention), the Oakville Stamp Club, and the North
Toronto Stamp Club. In addition, he served on the jury at
seven philatelic exhibitions, acting as chairman at six of
these. Until recently, he was the editor of the Journal of
the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and now serves as
associate editor and adviser. He was elected a Fellow of
this society in May.

More than ten enquiries were received soliciting an
expert opinion as to the value or origin of certain stamps
or related items. These were resolved, apparently with
complete satisfaction.

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Textile Department

Katharine B. Brett, Curator

Activities this year have centred on research and on the
recataloguing, exhibiting, and promoting of the
Department’s collections. The Department dealt with
enquiries from more than 450 visitors and with an ever-
increasing volume of correspondence. These services to
scholars, students, and the public from far and wide rank
as a very important form of outreach.

The policy of changing exhibitions of our own material in
the Department’s special exhibition gallery continued at
scheduled three-month intervals. Four complementary
displays were arranged for The Chinese Exhibition; a
special one-day showing of the Department’s entire
collection of Textiles for the Ontario Home was arranged
to illustrate a seminar; and several cases of African
textiles were organized for the Ethnology galleries.
Although unadvertised, nine complete gallery changes
were made. Material displayed in several cases scattered
throughout the building was also changed.

Two loan exhibits were arranged: “Canadian Weaving”
for the London Public Library and Art Museum, and a
travelling show exhibiting 19th-century textiles and
costumes, organized by the Extension Department for the
Ridgetown Centennial. The latter was part of ROM
participation in Festival Ontario.

Care of Collections

The curators and Mrs. Mary Holford catalogued 630 new
accessions. Dr. Veronika Gervers began recataloguing
the Coptic collection; Mrs. Katharine Brett has been
similarly occupied with the Harry Wearne Collection. It
has been Mrs. Judith Cselenyi’s responsibility, under the
direction of the curators, to reorganize the reserve
collections in new storage cabinets. This time-consuming
task has been aided by the part-time assistance of
Mrs. Molly Purchase. Mrs. Charlotte Zuppinger’s time has
been almost entirely taken up with sewing conservation,
to prepare material for display in forthcoming exhibitions.
Both she and Mrs. Cselenyi have performed a myriad of
tasks with their usual efficiency.

Clerical

Mrs. Ilona Andrews has ably handled the typing of
reports, correspondence, and exhibition labels, and kept
a close check on our accounts.

Research and Publication

Mrs. Brett travelled to New York, Boston, and Salem to
study costume and woodblock printed cottons.

Mrs. Dorothy Burnham wrote and drew the diagrams for
Pieced Quilts of Ontario, and also contributed a chapter
on weaving in Canada for Textile Source Book:
US/Canada, now being produced by Cecil Lubell, New
York. She prepared a slide set of quilts with commentary
now circulated by Extension Services, recorded archival
material and samples of Shetland Island knitting held in a
private collection in New Brunswick for the Museum, and
continued working on the English vocabulary of textile
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terms for the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles
Anciens (CIETA).

Dr. Gervers researched Coptic textiles in Brussels, Paris,
and Germany and costume from the Balkans in London,
Zagreb, and Rome. She also studied the 1 7th-century
Turkish Booty in Karlsruhe, Germany. She collaborated
with Dr. Lisa Golombek, West Asian Department, on a
project to study tlraz fragments in the ROM. She and Mrs.
Burnham also studied the archaeological textiles in the
Scythian Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.

Mr. John E. Vollmer spent five months in the Far Eastern
and T extile departments and the Indian Section of the
Victoria and Albert Museum, researching Far Eastern
materials related to the ROM’s collections. He spent an
additional month visiting museums on the Continent. A
Canada Council grant enabled him to study Chinese
Bronze Age weaving preserved in textile pseudomorphs
on patinas of bronze objects in Far Eastern collections in
Denmark, England, France, Germany, and Sweden.

Since his return he has continued his researches on the
Chinese Bronze Age loom from a site in Shizhaishan in
Yunnan and its relationship to recent Taiwanese looms in
the Museum’s collections.

All four members of the curatorial staff prepared
contributions for Studies in Textile History in Memory of
Harold B. Burnham, organized by Dr. Gervers and now in
preparation by her.

Lectures and Conferences

Mrs. Brett, who is cross-appointed to the University, and
the curatorial staff gave lectures on textiles to University
of Toronto fine art students in the decorative arts course.
Mrs. Brett gave a paper on “The Changing Silhouette in
Victorian Fashions” at the Victorian Image Symposium,
Guelph.

Mrs. Burnham gave four lectures on various aspects of
Canadian weaving to groups in Ontario and at the
University of Wisconsin. She also gave a one-day
University of Toronto Extension and ROM seminar on
“Furnishing Fabrics for the Ontario Home”, and spoke as
panelist at the Round Table Conference, Textile Museum,
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Gervers, with the support of a Canada Council grant,
gave a paper on “The Tradition of a Nomadic Mantle” at
the Third International Congress of South-East European
Studies, Bucharest, and one on “Traditional Felt-making
in West Asia” at the annual meeting of the Hungarian
Ethnographical Society, Szolnok, Hungary.

Mr. Vollmer lectured in Barrie and T oronto in connection
with The Chinese Exhibition. He also attended the
Canadian Museums Association meetings in Winnipeg.

Mrs. Holford gave her annual course on costume history

to Ryerson Polytechnical Institute household science
students, with occasional lectures by Dr. Gervers and Mr.
Vollmer.

Committees

Mrs. Brett served on the Curatorial Promotions
Committee, prepared an account of the Department for
the Board-Staff seminar, and was asked to submit a
statement to the Board on the curatorial functions of the
Department. Mrs. Burnham served on a committee to
review the status of curatorial assistants and worked on
two small interim committees. Dr. Gervers served on the
Editorial Committee as editor of the Museum’s scholarly
publications. Mr. Vollmer served on several ad hoc
committees and on the Extension Committee but was
replaced during his absence by Mrs. Brett. He and Mrs.
Burnham presented briefs to the Scott Review
Committees.

Acquisitions

Of the more than 600 items accessioned by the
Department, more than 500 were gifts from private
donors. These ranged from small single items to large
lots numbering more than 40 items. Many aspects of the
collections rely almost exclusively on the generosity of
donors. This participation of a museum-oriented public in
the growth and improvement of Canada’s major textile
collection is an important form of Museum support.

Additions were made to nearly every part of the vast
textile collections. Several important early Christian

fragments from Egypt were among the oldest accessions
made this year. Major additions to the collection of
popular European textiles include an important early
1 6th-century Italian green velvet chasuble; a magnificent
cope of Italian embroidered velvet dating from the 1 6th
century; several examples of 17th-century lace; two 18th-
century Portuguese embroideries; and a collection of
18th-century French and English woodblock printed
cottons. Many important accessions have helped fill
several gaps in the collections of Canadian and American
coverlets, quilts, linens, and furnishing fabrics.

Notable additions to the collections of regional costume
and weaving were an embroidered and dated Hungarian
szur mantle; Croatian and Dutch costume; a collection of
Nigerian weaving and resist-dyed cottons; Central Asian
costumes and tent furnishings; and Japanese country
cottons. The acquisition by purchase of an extremely rare
and important Chinese dragon coat is a major addition to
the important Chinese collections, which were further
augmented by a tapestry-woven yardage for an
emperor’s coat, and a velvet carpet.

An 18th-century girl’s overdress and petticoat and a
collection of mid-1 9th-century Quaker costume worn in
Canada, as well as collections of 20th-century
fashionable wear, are among the many items added to
the costume collection.

Through the generosity of Mrs. Edgar J. Stone a Textile
Department Endowment Fund has been established.

One of the earliest surviving Chinese
garments of its type dating from the
late 1 7th century, this tapestry-woven
silk and gold file dragon coat (ch’i-fu)
is among the most important
acquisitions of recent years and is of
prime importance in the study of
Chinese costume.

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West Asian Department

Louis D. Levine, Associate Curator-in-charge

While we all missed the guiding spirit of Dr. Young, who
has been away on sabbatical this year, the Department
bore up well in terms of internal functioning and output.
Highlights were the initiation of three major field projects
and a windfall of unanticipated gifts and loans to the
collection.

Collections

The “petrodollar” has joined the private collector in
pushing up the prices of all Near Eastern antiquities,
making it all but impossible for us to compete on the
international market. Nevertheless, we were able to
purchase among other things a handsome pair of 1 9th-
century Persian lacquered doors. These will complement
our collection of late Persian material which has just
doubled in size, thanks to a most munificent loan by Mr.
Frank Galbraith in memory of his wife Charlotte. This
material will constitute a significant base for the study of
pre-modern Persian decorative arts and will keep our
staff busy for the next 1 0 years. The Department also
received major gifts and loans from Mr. Borowski, Mrs.
H.B. Marcoolyn, Mr. F.B. Minarovich, and Mr. Jacob E.
Yeramian.

We continue to rely heavily on our field operations to
expand the collections. A collection of archaeological
material from Mesopotamia has been given by Trinity
College School. Dr. Young’s survey in western Iran has
also added a wide variety of new study materials from all
periods.

Materials collected last year from Dr. Levine’s
excavations at Seh Gabi have been processed and
prepared for publication. Copper slags brought back by
Dr. Keall from his survey in Oman last year are being
studied by Dr. Ursula Franklin of the Department of
Chemical Engineering of the University of T oronto. Dr.
Golombek continued the arduous task of reading the
Arabic inscription of tiraz fragments in the T extile
Department, which she will publish in collaboration with
Dr. Gervers.

Gallery Work

Preparations continue for the eventual reinstallation of the
Palestinian Collections. Meanwhile our efforts have been
directed toward organizing special temporary exhibits in
the space allocated to the pre-history collection. Until that
collection can be properly installed, this space will be our
theatre, which we share with the Egyptian Department,
for rotating exhibits. The next display, “Isfahan: Where
the Shahs Were”, is slated for July 1 975. A new
travelling exhibit drawn from our prehistoric collection
was put together under the direction of Dr. Kleindienst by
Museology students.

Field Work

With the launching of the Qaleh-i Yazdigird expedition in
western Iran under Dr. Keall, the Department literally
entered a new era. Up to this time the archaeological
field work, conducted by Drs. Young and Levine, has
focused on the millennia B.C. The new site promises to

yield material within Dr. Keall’s range of specialization,
the Parthian, Sasanian, and early Islamic periods (3rd
century B.C. to 1 3th century A.D.).

Dr. Young conducted a new survey of the Kangavar
valley to refine his perspective of the Godin Project
which concluded last year. The success of the project
exceeded expectations, with a total of 1 68 sites mapped
and recorded, giving us a complete picture of the valley
from 6000 B.C. to the present.

Dr. Levine began an ambitious survey of the Kermanshah
and Mahidasht valleys in western Iran. Mr. Breede
assisted in all three Iranian expeditions as draftsman and
photographer.

Dr. Golombek spent two weeks in Andalusia, the
southern part of Spain, which was once heavily
populated by Muslims. In addition to studying the more
famous mosques and palaces like the Alhambra, she
gathered comparative data on the organization of Islamic
cities in conjunction with the Isfahan City Project.

Research

Dr. Golombek processed the data from the Isfahan City
Project of the previous year and formulated plans for next
year’s return to the field. A fortunate find was a 1 9th-
century map showing the location of all streets and
monuments before the advent of motorized traffic. The
interpretation of this rare map, which will be displayed in
the Isfahan exhibit, poses many problems which Dr.
Golombek is wrestling with now.

Dr. Keall is involved in a major investigation of Parthian
economic and political history based on numismatic
evidence. His book on Parthian Nippur is nearing
completion.

Dr. Levine has been absorbed in processing and
publication of the material from Seh Gabi excavations. He
has also been studying the process of early urbanization
in Mesopotamia and its reflexes in Iran and the Persian
Gulf, and continues his work on the Neo-Assyrian
penetration of Iran.

Dr. Young has spent much of the year preparing the
architecture of the Iron Age levels at Godin Tepe for
publication and continues to investigate population
problems in early Greater Mesopotamia.

Lectures, Teaching, and Other Services

While residing at Oxford, Dr. Young lectured on the
ROM’s excavations in Iran at five universities in Britain
and on the Continent. Invited papers were also given by
Golombek, Keall, and Levine in Toronto, Hamilton,
Chicago, and Tehran. In addition to addressing the
academic community, the staff gave 23 popular talks at
schools and meetings of organizations.

At the University of T oronto our staff taught one
undergraduate course and three graduate courses in the
departments of Islamic Studies and Near Eastern Studies.
They also served as advisers to six graduate students,

supervised a doctoral dissertation, and served on two
Ph.D. examination committees. Mr. Breede taught
“Underwater Photography” at Centennial College.

Within the Museum Drs. Keall, Levine, and Young have
all assumed responsibilities on major curatorial
committees. Within the academic community at large
Drs. Levine and Young served respectively as President
and Secretary of the American Institute of Iranian
Studies.

It would, of course, be difficult to do all the things we do
without a loyal and conscientious back-up staff— our
secretary Terry Wang, our draftsman Mr. Breede, and
our new technician William Pratt. Mr. Breede's wide
range of activities and talents are already registered in
this report. Mr. Pratt, who replaced Peter Mitchell, has
infused a new order into the organization and storage of
the collection. Mr. Mitchell, now working outside the
Museum, has continued his interest in conservation in the
restoration of historic houses and has joined Dr. Keall’s
field project as conservator. Mrs. Ronald (Bardy) Hart of
the Members’ Committee continued to lend a helping
hand, as she has in the past.

We welcome back Dr. Young, as Dr. Levine leaves for
what we hope will be a productive sabbatical in Iran and
Israel.

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The McLaughlin Planetarium

H.C. King, Curator

The planning and production of public shows in the Star
Theatre continued to make heavy demands on curatorial
and technical staff. As in previous years, the lack of a
highly skilled sound technician on the permanent staff led
to delays and difficulties, but arrangements for the
employment of a person in this capacity commencing
July 1 , 1 975 are now complete. Much thought was given
to planning and financing technical improvements in the
Star Theatre and supporting areas. Dr. Clarke prepared a
long-term programme, established priorities, and initiated
the first phase of development. He assisted Mr. Jessop in
formulating details of a new automatic control system for
special effects and visited the Carl Zeiss-Jena factory to
discuss the purchase of new planetary units for the main
Zeiss projector.

Star Theatre Shows

The year opened with “Starfolk”, the first of three public
shows designed to present some of the results of
modern research in astronomy and allied subjects to the
general public. “Starfolk”, written and produced by Mr.
Ballantyne, provided information on the evolution of the
earth’s atmosphere and terrestrial life forms, outlined the
problem of detecting other planetary systems, and
discussed the possibilities of communicating with extra¬
terrestrial civilizations. Panoramas by Mr. Ireland and Mr.
Giovinazzo formed settings for a typical Martian
environment and the type-two civilization envisaged by
the Soviet astronomer Kardashev, and a simulated UFO
provided visitors with essential information for reporting
possible UFO sightings.

In “Probing the Planets” Dr. Clarke summarized some
outstanding results recently obtained by American and
Soviet spacecraft in the investigation of the planets
Mecury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Diagrams, panoramas,
and animated visuals were supported by numerous
photographs of the cloud belts of Jupiter and surface
features of Mercury and Mars. In one scene visitors
found themselves on Mercury, with the earth looking no
more than a bright star, Mariner 1 0 moving overhead,
and the zodiacal light and corona heralding the
appearance of a brilliant sun. In another, the recorded
voice of J. T uzo Wilson outlined the concept of
continental drift while simulated land masses moved
away from a composite outline of Pangaea. In a third
scene, mobile representations of Phobos and Deimos
accompanied a large image of Mars.

Bill Ireland, McLaughlin Planetarium’s staff artist, touches up a model of
a space shuttle’s booster rocket just prior to filming.

significance of Stonehenge, the pyramids of Egypt and
Mexico, and the zodiacal figures and planetarium
observations of the Babylonians. At one stage visitors
saw the full moon rise from behind the heel stone at
Stonehenge. At others, Thuban Draconis replaced Polaris
as the North Pole Star, Venus moved in accordance with
data recorded on the cuneiform tablets of Ammizadura,
and Sirius made a heliacal rising. For the interpretation of
the Aztec calendar stone Mr. Peters used a highly
effective fade-and-dissolve slide sequence supplemented
by animated diagrams prepared and photographed on
1 6-mm film in the Planetarium.

All four shows were controlled by a magnetic tape used
in conjunction with manual operations at the console.
Scheduling in the Star Theatre normally allowed for 16
public shows a week, 1 2 of which were supervised by
Mr. Gomes, Mr. Moleiro, and members of a small team of
part-time operators. T otal public attendance for the 1 974
calendar year was 1 39,430, an increase of about 8,000
over the previous year. Improved advertising by
Information Services, which organized the design and
circulation of attractive show posters and an illustrated
folder, was no doubt partly, if not completely, responsible
for this increase.

During most of December the Planetarium presented
“The Christmas Star”; this continued to attract
reasonably large audiences, despite numerous counter-
attractions elsewhere, and provided further opportunities
for presenting early interpretations of celestial events. In
January the technicians overhauled the main Zeiss
projector and extended the cove facilities for
supplementary projectors. The Theatre re-opened with
“Probing the Planets”, followed in March by “Men,

Myths and Monuments”, written in the form of a play by
Mr. Peters and produced in collaboration with Mr.
Ballantyne. Three characters discussed the astronomical
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Educational Programmes

For schools Mr. Peters devised “Exploring the Planets”
(grades 3 to 6) and “The Mysterious Sky” (grades 7 to
1 0). During the 1 974 calendar year 62,880 children and
4,625 teachers attended 289 school shows, each given
“live” by a member of the curatorial staff. Dr. Clarke and
Mr. Peters used the Star Theatre for demonstrations on
spherical astronomy to 1 ,275 university students, and the
Curator conducted two sessions on planetary motions for
students of the history and philosophy of science.
Navigation formed the theme of evening shows given by
the Curator to the Peterborough Power Squadron.

Aspects of general astronomy were covered by Mr.

Green in seven sessions arranged for the Big Brothers’
Association of London, the ROM Saturday Morning Club,
delegates from the Charles Hayden Planetarium and
Boston Museum of Art, and other large groups.

The Curator contributed to the Continuing Education
Programme of University Extension by giving 1 2 lectures
on the history of cosmology. He addressed several
outside groups on the subject of astronomical clocks,
held a seminar on the problems of horological research,
and gave a lecture on “Mechanical Clocks and Time-
Keeping” in the Museum’s Science series. Mr. Green
contributed 1 6 lectures in two courses on popular
astronomy, addressed various service clubs, church and
other groups, and organized a small group of amateur
astronomers eager to photograph the total lunar eclipse
of May 25, 1975. Two courses of eight lectures each on
observational astronomy were also given by Mr. Peters in
association with Mr. Ballantyne.

Reasearch and Travel

The Curator completed the main body of his text on the
history of geared planetary machines and astronomical
clocks. A first-draft copy of footnotes and references was
prepared and work commenced on collating more than
1 ,200 titles for the bibliography. The decision to add a
final section on the historical development of the
projection planetarium required considerable extra work.
Thanks to a Canada Council grant he was able to acquire
a large amount of photographic material and to inspect
specific clocks and instruments in public collections in
Prague, Munich, Kassel, Hanover, and London. Dr.

Clarke had a five-day observing session at the Algonquin
Radio Observatory and thereby completed his share in
the research project for the circular polarization of radio
sources at 9.4 cm wavelength, organized by E.R.

Seaquist of the Department of Astronomy, University of
Toronto. The results of a similar study at 2.2 cm
wavelength were published in The Astronomical Journal.

At a conference of planetarium directors at the Charles
Hayden Planetarium, Boston, the Curator and Mr.
Ballantyne had their first viewing of “Laserium”. As a
result of this experience Mr. Ballantyne saw public
“Laserium” shows at the Hayden Planetarium, New
York, and furthered negotiations with Laser Images, Inc.
for similar events in the McLaughlin Planetarium. Mr.
Ballantyne accompanied Mr. Peters to a planetarium
conference in Atlanta, and Mr. Green visited two major
planetariums in Michigan and attended the General
Assembly of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
in Halifax.

Other Activities

Dr. Clarke served as Chairman of the Science Curators
Council. He had almost full responsibility for supervising
the work of show production, initiated improvements in
the display area, and was active in the final negotiations
for “Laserium”. Mr. Green met the day-to-day demands
of house-staff supervision, coped with budget details, and

established operating schedules for the part-time staff
required for “Laserium”. He held several information
sessions for the women of the Members’ Committee
responsible for conducting tours in the Planetarium
display areas; the tours were not only well attended but
also greatly appreciated by the general public. Mr.
Ballantyne prepared recordings for the Planetarium’s
telephone information service, contributed to numerous
radio and television programmes, and was appointed
Chairman of the Conference of the Planetarium
Association of Canada, scheduled to be held in Toronto
during August 1975. Mr. Peters continued to represent
the Planetarium at the Toronto Centre of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada and reports that the
optical workshop operated at capacity on Saturdays and
T uesday evenings throughout the Centre’s year.

Staff Changes

The only major staff change was that occasioned by the
sudden death in January of Mrs. D. De Ville, Head
Hostess since October 1970. Mrs. De Ville brought
maturity and a great sense of dedication to her work. She
always extended a warm welcome to visitors and was
highly regarded by the staff. Her place was filled by Miss
L. Buldo, senior hostess since 1973.

Botany

John L. Riley, Curatorial Assistant

As in former years, the Vascular Plant Herbarium on the
third floor of the Botany Building of the University of
Toronto provided a hectic and rewarding experience,
with accelerated expansion of the collections into
shrinking storage facilities, and with increased numbers
of graduate students, outside agencies, and individuals
relying on the Herbarium and its facilities for information.
During 1974-75, however, Leila Gad resigned to pursue a
teaching career. Her position as curatorial assistant was
assumed by John L. Riley, graduate of the University of
Toronto and occasional environmental consultant with
the provincial government.

Teaching and Public Service

In the course of a year the Herbarium receives hundreds
of enquiries from the most diverse sources, including
forensic labs and quarantine officials at border points,
government environmental planning agencies,
ethnobotanists at archaeological digs, and naturalists and
gardeners wanting tips on their hobbies. Many of the
enquiries lead to some instruction and encouragement of
the use of the Herbarium, and often to contributions of
specimens to the collections.

Teaching duties involved the usual instruction of students
of systematics in Herbarium techniques,
exchange/loan procedures, Herbarium library
materials, lab equipment, and the collection and
maintenance of pickled and dried materials for various
teaching situations. In addition to their University-related
course work, the staff offered a course with the School of
Continuing Studies on the Flora of Ontario, assisted with
the Saturday Morning Club, and organized field trips and
lectures with the Toronto Field Naturalists.

Popular articles generated by Herbarium staff or by
people using Herbarium collections include Ontario
Naturalist articles on sundews (June 1 974), the walking
fern (March 1975), and ginseng (June 1975); an Ontario
Field Biologist article on sundews; and others. Several
other articles have been prepared and are awaiting
publication. In January the Herbarium was featured on a
CBC documentary on various Canadian research
facilities.

Acquisitions and Field Work

At present space limitations do not permit the processing
or use of any of the materials acquired except for those
collected in Ontario or in exceptionally interesting areas
elsewhere. Despite this restriction, more than 3,500
specimens were added to our collection. These were
from all parts of Ontario, the most notable in scope being
those from Haliburton, Dufferin, Cochrane, Metro
Toronto, Thunder Bay, and Manitoulin. Valuable
collections from Quebec and the Northwest Territories
were also accessioned. At present we have no way of
estimating the extent of the collections kept in storage.
Many of these materials are the result of an international
specimen exchange programme, to which our Herbarium
contributed more than 2,500 specimens this year.

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The International Seed Exchange (Botany/Forestry
Depts.) is supported in large measure by Herbarium staff
collections. This year’s list of 400 species, mostly
indigenous, was sent to about 400 similar institutions.

Field work of the Herbarium staff focused on the northern
Ontario clay belt, the Rouge River ravines, and Haliburton
County. It is anticipated that several very useful
publications will result from these studies.

Research

Dr. J.E. Cruise, Curator, and Dr. J.W. Grear, Professor of
Botany, are supervising master’s and/or doctoral
theses on ladies’ tresses orchids, blue-eyed grasses,
fireweeds, panic grasses, and some aspects of aster
taxonomy. A master’s thesis on Lithospermum spp.,
puccoons, was completed and accepted. A New World
monograph by Dr. J.W. Grear on Fthynchosia, a genus of
tropical legumes, is nearing completion. This project has
involved the loan of over 1 5,000 specimens from more
than 35 international herbaria.

Several undergraduate students are being supervised in
special project courses as part of an attempt to compile a
flora of Ontario. This ongoing concern has also involved
the initiation of accumulative files of county floras,
distribution maps, and relevant reprint materials.

The loan programmes and organization of these
biosystematic treatments all involve increasingly complex
storage problems and a constant review of space
priorities. There is thus a natural enthusiasm for any
Museum expansion plans which would relieve current
pressures and draw botany closer to the mainstream of
Museum activities.

Department of Entomology
and Invertebrate Zoology

Glenn B. Wiggins, Curator

Publication this year of Volume III of The Odonata of
Canada and Alaska , by the late Edmund M. Walker and
Philip S. Corbet, is a particularly significant event for the
Department. This volume concludes the series begun by
Professor Walker when he came here in 1 949 as
Honorary Curator after his retirement as Chairman of the
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto. Illness
prevented Dr. Walker from completing Volume III, and he
died in 1 969. Professor Corbet was invited by the
Curator to finish the manuscript, and with the aid of a
grant to the Department from the Canadian National
Sportsmen’s Show the work was completed. Publication
was supported by grants from the National Research
Council of Canada and the Publications Fund of the
University of Toronto Press.

Field Work and Research

Work on the manuscript of the book Larvae of the North
American caddisfly genera was the major project
throughout the year for Dr. Wiggins; Mr. Odum and Mr.
Yamamoto have also been heavily involved. Support
from the National Research Council enabled Dr. Wiggins
to continue his study of temporary-pool communities with
Professor R. J. Mackay, Research Associate. He carried
out field work on T richoptera in northern Manitoba; in
Minnesota, where he was a member of the summer
faculty of the Lake Itasca Biology Station, University of
Minnesota; and in France, where he also studied
collections in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle,
Paris. With Mr. Yamamoto’s assistance, he continued
biochemical studies of several caddisfly groups with Dr.
Chua of the Laboratory of Analytical Systematics.

Dr. Barr’s work on water mites, supported by the
National Research Council, continued with projects on
the genera Sperchon, with assistance from Mrs. Sutton,
and on Arrenurus, for which he did field work at the
Queen’s University Biological Station, Chaffeys Locks,
Ontario. He attended the Fourth International Congress of
Acarology in Austria and visited colleagues and
museums in Europe and the United States. He also
completed the manuscript for his study of swimming
behaviour in water mites and supervised the work of two
artists in preparing illustrations for his study of the family
Pionidae.

Dr. Ball continued work on his handbook of the
planarians of eastern Canada, for which he did field work
in Ontario and New Brunswick. He continued work on a
handbook of British planarians with Professor T. B.
Reynoldson of University College, North Wales, and
undertook studies on the karyology of North American
planarians in collaboration with Dr. Nicole Gourbault of
Paris. Dr. Ball also worked on Australian planarians and
on an Atlantic planarian parasitic on skates.

The Rev. J.C.E. Riotte, Research Associate in
Lepidoptera, concluded his study of the tussock moth
genus Orgyia with revision of the Australian species and
a description of one new species from Florida. New
species were also discovered from Taiwan in the
sphingid genus Hippotion, and from South Carolina in the

saturniid genus Anisota. Father Riotte worked again on
New Guinea Sphingidae in the Bishop Museum,

Honolulu, completing a manuscript on the Sphingidae for
the series Insects of Micronesia. Again, at the Queen’s
University Biological Station, he collected and reared
Lepidoptera during the 1 974 field season.

Collections

Reorganization of the insect collection under Mr.
Yamamoto was largely concentrated on the Odonata and
T richoptera. Father Riotte continued reorganization of the
Lepidoptera with work on the Sphingidae. In work on the
arachnid collections by Dr. Barr assisted by Mrs. Avruch,
a major reorganization of the slide-mounted Acari was
completed, adding many new slides of identified
specimens to the permanent collections. Approximately
500 lots of T urbellaria were catalogued by Ms. Smith
under Dr. Ball’s supervision, bringing this job nearly to
completion.

Lectures and Teaching

Dr. Wiggins presented a paper at the First International
Symposium on Trichoptera in Austria, an invited paper at
a symposium at the annual meeting of the Entomological
Society of America in Minneapolis, and, with R.J.

Mackay, a paper at the XIX Congress of the International
Association of Limnology in Winnipeg. He gave a
graduate course, “Systematic Entomology”, in the
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto,
supervised and examined the work of graduate students,
and was external examiner for a Ph.D. thesis at the
University of Waterloo. Dr. Wiggins also presented
several lectures within the Museum.

Dr. Barr gave a course on “Advanced Invertebrate
Zoology” at the University of Toronto. He was appointed
to the Faculty of the School of Graduate Studies, and
supervised the work of one M.Sc. student. He gave
lectures at Erindale College and to the Toronto
Entomologists’ Association, and spoke to students at two
schools.

Dr. Ball was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of the
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, and gave
several lectures to students at the universities of
Waterloo and Toronto. He served on committees of
graduate students at the universities of New Brunswick
and Toronto. Dr. Ball also presented an invited paper at
the symposium, “World Perspectives in Biogeography”,
at the annual meeting of the American Society of
Zoologists in Tucson.

Interpretative Programme

The Department’s travelling exhibit of Canadian insects
continued to circulate to public libraries in the
Metropolitan Toronto area. Dr. Barr and Mr. Yamamoto
introduced five groups in the Museum’s Saturday
Morning Club to insects. Two small exhibits were
installed in the third-floor Rotunda, and six articles were
written by members of the Department (Odum, Barr, Ball)
for Rotunda and several other popular journals.

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Identification and Loan Service

A large number of identifications and enquiries from
private, commercial, and government sources were again
dealt with this year. Specialized identifications of
caddisflies were made for nine universities and museums
in the United States; a collection of water mites was
identified for the Freshwater Institute, Environment
Canada, Winnipeg; and seven lots of planarians were
identified for universities, museums, and government
agencies in Australia, Denmark, the United States, and
Canada. Loans and exchanges of research materials to
institutions in various parts of the world continued as in
previous years.

Other Staff Activities

The Department records with regret the resignation of
Mr. Anker Odum, our scientific illustrator. Mr. Odum has
been a member of the Department since 1 966 and has
established a reputation for excellent work in insect
illustration and display. He leaves to devote his full time
to independent work in both illustrating and writing, and

we thank him for his contribution to the development of
the Department.

We welcome as a Research Associate of the Department
Professor Rosemary J. Mackay of the Department of
Zoology, University of Toronto, an ecologist specializing
in the role of aquatic insects in freshwater communities.

Dr. Wiggins was appointed as a staff representative to
the ROM Report Review Committee to consider the
report “Guidelines for Planning” as the basis for the
Museum’s expansion. Both he and Dr. Barr continued to
serve as coordinators for the Laboratory of Analytical
Systematics, a joint facility of the University of T oronto's
Department of Zoology and the Museum. Dr. Ball served
as associate editor of ROM Life Sciences Publications.
Father Riotte was appointed Research Associate in
Entomology by the T rustees of the Bishop Museum,
Honolulu, Hawaii. Finally, we record the cheerful
dedication of our Department Secretary, Tish Sass, in this
exceedingly busy year.

Department of Geology

S.B. Lumbers, Curator

The past fiscal year has been one of major importance to
the Department of Geology. A grant of $300,000 was
successfully negotiated with the Ontario Division of
Mines, Ministry of Natural Resources, to establish a
geochronology laboratory in the Department. The new
laboratory will require a close working relationship
between the departments of Geology and Mineralogy,
and accordingly the two departments will merge as of
July 1, 1975.

Scheduled for completion in mid-1976, the
geochronology laboratory is a joint venture undertaken
by the ROM and the Ontario Division of Mines. The
laboratory will be one of the most sophisticated of its
type in the world and will not only contribute to increased
knowledge of the Precambrian of Ontario, but will also
provide the mining industry with data essential to the
improvement of mineral exploration in Canada. Dr. T.E.
Krogh, a native of Peterborough and an international
authority on geochronology, presently at the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, will be in charge of the new
laboratory.

In spite of the time required for negotiations and planning
of the geochronology laboratory, the normal operations
of the Department continued uninterrupted, much to the
credit of the staff.

Geobotanical Research

Although Dr. McAndrews spent part of the year on
sabbatical, the work of the geobotany laboratory
continued in his absence. Mr. Eugene Ramcharan
completed a M.Sc. thesis on the taxonomy of
Lithospermum in Ontario. Mr. Les Cwynar collected fire-
scar data from trees and studied the charcoal content of
lake sediment during his thesis work on the fire history of
Algonquin Provincial Park. Mr. Elliott Burden joined the
laboratory and is preparing a thesis on fossil pollen and
geochemistry of lakes in Huronia. Dr. A.R. Byrne of the
University of California, Berkeley, spent the summer in
the laboratory continuing his study of the environment
and subsistence of prehistoric Indians near Crawford
Lake.

Dr. McAndrews, assisted by Mr. Reg Adams, continued
his compilation of the Quaternary pollen stratigraphy of
North America. Results of this work were presented in
papers delivered to the American Association of
Stratigraphic Palynologists, the Canadian Archaeological
Association, and the Geological Association of Canada.
Mr. Adams skilfully made scanning electron micrographs
of important specimens in the collection.

Mr. Larry King, Miss Miriam Mulstein, and Miss Barbara
Shykoff supplied temporary assistance in the laboratory.

Petrological Research

Dr. Lumbers, assisted by Mr. Ken Carriere who joined
the Department as a temporary research assistant in
September, continued research on the geology of the
Grenville Province and the petrology of anorthosite suite
intrusive rocks, alkalic rock-carbonatite complexes, and

volcanic rock suites of the Superior Province. With the
financial assistance of the Ontario Division of Mines,
geological mapping was conducted in the Mattawa—
Deep River and Pembroke areas in the summer of 1 974
and in June 1 975. Field trips were made to the Slate
Islands in Lake Superior, the Minnesota River Valley, and
the Timmins and Cobalt areas. At Cobalt arrangements
were concluded to loan five large ore specimens to the
Cobalt Mining Museum.

Work was initiated on the palaeomagnetism of the River
Valley Anorthosite in conjunction with Dr. R.A. Facer, a
visiting Australian geologist at present with the
Department of Geology, University of Toronto. Other
research nearing publication was carried out on this
same intrusion with the help of Mr. Sturman of the
Department of Mineralogy.

Dr. Lumbers and Dr. K.D. Card of the Ontario Division of
Mines completed a major revision of the Sudbury-
Cobalt compilation map, and the results of Dr. Lumbers’
research in the Burwash area were published by the
Ontario Division of Mines as Geological Report 1 16. Dr.
Lumbers continued work on manuscripts for future
geological reports covering the River Valley and Tomiko
areas.

Dr. Lumbers attended the International Conference on the
Oldest Rocks, held in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, and the
annual meetings of the Geological Association of Canada
and the Mineralogical Association of Canada, held in
Waterloo, Ontario. He also co-authored a paper with Mr.
E.C. Simmons and Dr. G.N. Hanson presented at the
annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in
Miami, Florida.

Collections

Mrs. Siddiqi prepared pollen reference slides, and 31 9 of
these slides were exchanged for a similar number from
the National Museum in Ottawa. An important modern
seed collection was purchased from Professor Fred
Montgomery, whose forthcoming book is based upon the
collection. Fossil pollen collections were made in New
York State, Ontario, Manitoba, Minnesota, and the
northern Plains states. The cooperation of the
Atmospheric Environmental Service was enlisted in the
collection of moss samples at meteorological stations.

Under the guidance of Mrs. Jean Charing and with the
assistance of Mr. Peter Teewiss and Mr. Ken Carriere,
reorganization of the petrology collection continues, and
a comprehensive research reference collection of Ontario
Phanerozoic and Precambrian rocks is being established.
More than 300 rock specimens were added to the
collection during the year. Dr. Lumbers collected suites
of rocks from the Slate Islands, the Minnesota River
Valley, and the Chapleau area. Mr. R. Walker donated a
suite of rocks from the Kidd Creek Mine near Timmins.
Other rock suites and specimens were donated by Dr.

D.F. Hewitt, Dr. J. Gittins, Mr. L.W. Curtis, Dr. R. Bell,
and Mr. Eric Bright.

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Mrs. Charing, assisted by Mr. U. Grassi, continued the re¬
design of the thin-section and polishing laboratory. With
the generous donations of several mining companies, a
surface grinder was purchased. When modified it will
have a production capacity of 1 50 rock thin sections per
week. This production will satisfy all the needs of the
ROM and will also allow outside contracts for this work to
be undertaken.

Mrs. Scheffel proceeded with the recataloguing and
documentation of the Department’s petrology and map
collections.

Teaching and Lectures

Dr. McAndrews taught “Prehistoric Human Ecology”, a
graduate course at the University of Manitoba. He
continued to supervise graduate students in the
Department of Botany, University of Toronto, where he is
Associate Professor.

Dr. Lumbers presented lectures to teachers, geology
students, and the Walker Mineralogical Club, and gave
tours of the Geology galleries to several groups. He also
counselled students at the Department of Geology,
University of Toronto, on thesis problems and advised
geologists from government and industry on various
aspects of Ontario Precambrian geology.

Public Service and Miscellaneous Staff Activities

Fifty individuals submitted rock specimens for
identification, and 41 letters answering these enquiries
were sent. Numerous written and telephone enquiries for
geological information were received and processed by
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Charing. Mrs. Scheffel answered 34
enquiries from children and hobbyists interested in

geology, served as an instructor with the Saturday
Morning Club, toured a group of teachers to the Dundas
Quarry, and gave lectures to hobby clubs in Ontario. She
is currently President of the Gem and Mineral Club of
Scarborough.

The Geology Department exhibited four panels of
decorative and ornamental stones during the first annual
mineral show of the Willowdale Gem and Mineral Club.

Several visiting scientists from Ontario and elsewhere
made use of the geobotany and petrology research
reference collections. Suites of rocks were loaned to
mining companies and universities for research and
teaching purposes. Rock identifications were made for
the Archaeology, Education, Greek and Roman,
Mammalogy, Mineralogy, and Invertebrate Palaeontology
departments. Dr. Lumbers studied a suite of rocks
collected by Dr. Kenyon from the Frobisher Mine, in
preparation for a major exhibition on the Frobisher
expedition.

Dr. Lumbers continued as Chairman of the Committee on
Non-Curatorial Salaries.

Mr. Peter Teewiss maintained the pool beneath the
Bickell Globe and made several repairs in the Geology
galleries. During the year Mr. Teewiss cut and polished
several rock specimens for gallery display.

Honours

Dr. Lumbers was elected a Fellow of The Explorers Club
of New York. Dr. McAndrews served on the National
Research Council Associate Committee on Quaternary
Research.

Dr. Lumbers (left) helps to unload the
boat from the aircraft, preparatory to
mapping rocks at Cross Lake, Lake
Timagami area, Ontario.

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Department of Ichthyology
and Herpetology

E.J. Crossman, Curator-in-charge

This has been a year of heavy service to the ROM
administration and to the Department’s public in its
various forms, and of attempting to create room in order
to remain in operation. Administrative involvements of
the curatorial staff used almost all ROM hours, with the
result that curatorial and research activities had to be
shifted to the evening hours.

Changes included the resignation of Ms. Elizabeth Perry,
who was replaced by Ms. Sharon Earp, and the
appointment of Dr. J. Bogart, University of Guelph, as
Research Associate (Herpetology). In September
responsibility for the Department was transferred from Dr.
W.B. Scott to Dr. E.J. Crossman. Dr. Scott has served,
with great distinction, as Department Head since 1950,
and it was hoped that this change, along with the
anticipated end of his duties as Associate Director, would
provide him with greater opportunity to pursue his studies
and curatorial interests.

Field Work and Research

Dr. Scott, with the assistance of Mrs. Scott, revised the
checklist of Canadian Atlantic fishes, one of the first
steps in the revision of his book Fishes of the Atlantic
Coast of Canada. He also completed, with Dr. R.E.

Zurbrigg, a publication arising from research on lantern
fishes. These two activities are part of Dr. Scott’s
continuing research on the fishes of the Atlantic Ocean.

In cooperation with the Department of Mineralogy, Dr.

Scott also completed a special study of mercury in
fishes, which resulted in a ROM publication.

In July and August, Dr. Emery extended the
Department’s interest in the fishes of the Windward
Islands and continued his own intensive research on
damselfishes with a field trip to Barbados. While in
Barbados, Dr. Emery pursued another of his studies,
sound production in fishes, which he is also pursuing in
Ontario. As in birds, vocalization is an index both of
behavioural activity and of the relationship between
species. Dr. Emery also continued work on the osteology
and evolution of damselfishes, examining (with Dr. G.

Allen of Australia) the genera Pomacentrus and
Eupomacentrus for a revision at the species level.

Field research on muskellunge continued from July to
November and at irregular intervals during the winter,
and started again in May. This work, undertaken in
cooperation with the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources, is supported by grants to Dr. Crossman from
the Canadian National Sportsmen’s Show and the
National Research Council. The project is part of his
continuing research on esocoid fishes and was the
subject of an article in Rotunda, Winter 1 975.

Mrs. Cheryl Goodchild carried the bulk of the work load
on other projects, including a bibliography of the
muskellunge, a study of artificial hybrids, and the fishes
and fishery of the Niagara River.

LIBRARY
ROYAL ONTARIO

Exhibitions

Two cases in the Gallery of Canadian Fishes were
renovated for changing, temporary exhibits. The first
exhibit featured the world’s record lake trout from Lake
Athabasca. A model of the coelacanth, the living-fossil
fish, was acquired through the kindness of the National
Museum of Natural History, and a display is being
prepared.

During The Chinese Exhibition the third-floor aquaria
were converted to displays of Asian fishes. Dr. Emery
supervised an exhibition of watercolours, soft sculpture,
and ceramics by Ms. Allycia Uccello, entitled “Beneath
the Seas”.

Mr. Peter Buerschaper was involved in the arduous task
of preparing, with T.M. Shortt, for the major exhibition
“Animals in Art” to open in Cctober 1975.

Collections

During the year 571 lots of fishes, amphibians, and
reptiles were processed. These lots varied from single
individuals to thousands of specimens of fishes from the
Atlantic Ocean, Ontario, and Barbados. Of these 11,116
specimens were catalogued into the collection.

Seventeen institutions benefited by exchange gifts of
uncatalogued materials resulting mainly from research
projects and from our involvement in the identification of
material collected by the Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources.

Twenty-one loans were shipped to other institutions, and
studies here made use of material borrowed from nine
institutions.

Dr. Emery spent considerable time identifying, relocating,
and reorganizing the collections from Barbados. This
revealed that our holdings constitute a unique and
valuable reference resource.

Because of severe crowding and dangerous double¬
stacking in the reference collection, shelving was
installed behind the reptile gallery for storage of supplies,
in order to release a few more shelves for specimens.

Lectures and Teaching

Dr. Scott participated in the programmes, thesis
appraisal, and examinations of several students, and in
the supervision of one M.Sc. student. Dr. Emery
presented 20 popular lectures to lay audiences and
fulfilled 1 2 university invitations in Canada and the United
States.

The diversity of interests served by after-hours lectures is
exemplified by five lectures given by Dr. Crossman to
groups ranging from novice anglers to the Royal
Canadian Military Institute. Dr. Crossman also presented
six lectures at Ontario universities and to provincial

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MUSEUM

Student helpers advance department collections by preparing skeletons.

government groups, supervised two M.Sc. students, and
served on the supervisory committees of six others at the
University of Toronto, the University of Guelph, and New
York State University at Buffalo.

Honours and Appointments

Dr. Scott is cross-appointed to the University of Toronto
as Professor in the Department of Zoology. He also
served as Past President and Governor of the American
Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and as
Associate Editor for the Canadian Society of Zoologists;
he was a member of the Board of Directors of the
Metropolitan T oronto Zoological Society and of the
Ontario Council of Commercial Fishermen.

Dr. Crossman, who is cross-appointed to the University
of Toronto, was promoted from Associate Professor to
Professor. He was also appointed to the Graduate
Faculty of the University of Guelph, to the Judging
Committee for World Freshwater Fishing Records, to the
Board of Governors of the American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and to the Board of
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Directors of the Canadian Society of Environmental
Biologists.

Mr. Peter Buerschaper was appointed a Director of the
Federation of Ontario Naturalists.

ROM Service

Dr. Scott served as Associate Director of the Museum
and at times as Acting Director. He also served on the
Director’s Advisory Committee and the Promotion
Committee (Curatorial), was in charge of the Art
Department, and was a member of the following Board of
T rustees working groups: the Search Committee, the
Personnel Committee, the Project Control Group for
Expansion, and the Review Committee for Guidelines for
Planning Report.

Dr. Emery spent approximately six months on ROM
service as Chairman of the Life Sciences Editorial Board
and as a member of the Non-Curatorial Salary Review
Committee.

Peter Buerschaper spent considerable time arranging for
the selection and acquisition of the pieces for the 1975
exhibit “Animals in Art”, and prepared the catalogue.

Dr. Crossman acted as Coordinator for electronic data
processing, was a member of the Policy Committee,
Laboratory of Analytical Systematics, and was curatorial
representative for the “Animals in Art” exhibit.

Professional Service and Meetings

All curators continue their service to various professional
societies, as outlined in appointments, and act as
referees for various scientific journals.

Dr. Emery was an invited participant in an International
Symposium on the Basses and prepared a chapter for a
book which will result from that colloquium.

Dr. Crossman participated in a workshop on the
rehabilitation of Lake Ontario and attended the national
meetings of the Canadian Committee on Freshwater
Fisheries Research, the Canadian Society of
Environmental Biologists, and the Ontario section of the
latter society. All three curators attended the annual
meetings of the American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists.

Peter Buerschaper attended the annual meeting of the
Ontario Federation of Naturalists.

Public Service

As in all departments, the spectrum of public service is
broad and is difficult to describe in brief, involving the
daytime and after-hours effort of the staff members. Dr.
Emery gave television interviews, in which he attempted
to present a realistic picture of the aquatic world, and
was adviser for a 1 976 CBC-TV programme called “The
Invisible Reef”. He lectured in the Department to school
children and gave advice to a sculptor and a painter, as
well as to a surprising number of people interested in the
aquaculture of everything from Arctic char to tropical
lobsters.

There have been constant requests for information on
snakes and frogs from laymen and businesses. Through
the year 71 individuals or groups of individuals came to
the Department for such services as identification,
consultation, research on study collections, and use of
the department library, or simply to see what work was in
progress.

More structured public service was rendered by
participation in such bodies as the Boards of Directors of
the Canadian National Sportsmen’-s Show and the
Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Centre (W.B. Scott), the
Hart House Graduate Committee, the Toronto Anglers
and Hunters Association, a Metro Parks Commission
Planning Committee, and the Management Committee for
Kawartha Lakes (E.J. Crossman).

Department of Invertebrate
Palaeontology

Desmond H. Collins, Curator

Planning for the Invertebrate Palaeontology Gallery and
recataloguing the collections on a computer-based data
storage and retrieval system continued to dominate
activities in the Department.

Mr. John Monteith, who first came to the ROM in 1 935
and who had previously been at the University of Toronto
for six years with Professor Parks, the first Director of the
Museum of Palaeontology, was promoted to Assistant
Curator. John Monteith has been Secretary, Technician,
Research Assistant, Chief Technician, Curatorial Assis¬
tant, and Acting Head in the Department over the years.

Professor Madeleine A. Fritz was chosen as one of the
outstanding Canadian women whose achievements are
highlighted at an exhibition devoted to Canadian women
during International Women’s Year at the National
Museum in Ottawa. Professor Fritz, an authority on the
study of fossil Bryozoa, was the second woman elected
to the Royal Society of Canada and has been associated
with the ROM since 1 927.

Mrs. LaVerne Russell, Senior Technician in charge of the
Micropalaeontology Laboratory, left in September after
four years with the Museum. She performed her duties as
well as one could wish. Mrs. Pandora Buckley, who had
previously been with the Department of Entomology and
Invertebrate Zoology, took her place.

Two notable additions to our collections this year were a
large collection of fossil plants transferred to the Museum
from the Department of Botany of the University of
Toronto, and a sizeable collection of Cretaceous
ammonites, nautiloids, and bivalves collected by Dr.
Harish Verma in southern India. The palaeobotanical
collection includes a particularly fine set of thin sections
of the famous Rhynie Chert flora of Scotland.

The Gallery

Because of the great activity elsewhere in the Museum in
the summer and fall of 1 974, planning for the Invertebrate
Palaeontology Gallery was much delayed. However,
discussion with the Design Department has been
resumed. Stromatolites for the Precambrian displays
were collected by Collins, Sabelis, and Barnett from the
Taltheili Peninsula and adjacent islands on the East Arm
of Great Slave Lake in the N.W.T. Specimens bearing the
oldest known life, bacteria, algae, and fungi, were
collected by Robert Barnett on behalf of the ROM on a
private trip to South Africa. These specimens are thought
to be three billion years old. In September, Collins,
Sabelis, and Barnett visited Professor Elso Barghoorn,
the foremost Precambrian life specialist, at Harvard. They
also visited the New York State Museum at Albany and
the new Aquarium at Mystic, Connecticut, to seek
information and new ideas for the gallery. A major effort
has been mounted in the summer of 1 975 to collect the
famous Cambrian Age Burgess Shale fossils of eastern
British Columbia for a large gallery display. Finally, Dr.
John Callomon of University College, London, who

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visited Toronto in August, collected an evolutionary
sequence of ammonites from the Brick Pits around
Peterborough, England, for another gallery display.

The Collections

The Catalogue Assistance Grant from the National
Museums Policy Committee was delayed for three
months before it was renewed for a further two years.

Joy Saunders, Miriam Mulstein, Lynda Nakamoto, David
Rudkin, and Maria Thinh, under the supervision of Mrs.
Janet Waddington, then resumed cataloguing at a faster
pace, so that a large part of the collections has now been
recatalogued. In the coming year our efforts will be
concentrated on reducing the year’s backlog of data that
is ready to be put onto computer tape.

Field Work

In addition to collecting for the gallery, Dr. Collins took
field excursions to Bowmanville, Kirkfield, Port Colborne,
Fort Erie, Craigleith, and Arkona-Thedford in Ontario. Dr.
Peter von Bitter, in cooperation with the New Brunswick
Department of Natural Resources, spent three weeks in
the field in that province. He also took excursions to
Grimsby and Port Maitland in Ontario.

Research and Publications

Professor Fritz’s Redescription of Type Specimens of the
Bryozoan Heterotrypa from Upper Ordovician Rocks of
the Credit River Valley, Ontario, Canada was published
as Life Sciences Contribution 1 01 . She is now restudying
the type specimens of Monticulipora. Dr. von Bitter
continued his studies on the Mississippian Windsor
Group conodonts, presenting a paper on them at the
annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada
in Waterloo in May. At the same meeting, a paper he
wrote jointly with Peter T elford, “Devonian Conodont
Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology, Niagara Peninsula,
Ontario” was also presented. Mrs. Janet Waddington
continued research on her joint manuscript with Dr. J.B.
Waterhouse on the Permian brachiopod genus,
Spiriferella. Dr. Harish Verma, Research Fellow, identified
the Cretaceous ammonites he collected in India.

Meetings

Dr. Collins attended the annual meeting of the Geological
Society of America in Miami in November and also
attended a short course on “Principles of Benthic
Analysis” at the nearby Fisher Island Research Station of
the University of Miami. Both Dr. Collins and Dr. von
Bitter attended the annual meeting of the Geological
Association of Canada at Waterloo and the
accompanying field trips in May, and the Eastern
Canadian Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy Seminar at
McGill University in December. The 1 975 seminar will be
held at the Royal Ontario Museum in November.

Dr. von Bitter attended the International Symposium on
Belgian Micropalaeontological Limits in Belgium in
September. He visited colleagues and dealers in East and
West Germany.

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Teaching

Dr. Collins was invited to speak to the Biology Seminar
Series at Memorial University, Newfoundland, in October.
While there, he also spent a day in the field with
Professor Anderson collecting Precambrian metazoans.
Dr. Collins gave his regular lectures to the Invertebrate
Zoology class of the University of T oronto, and also
spoke to the Palaeontology Seminar at McMaster
University. Dr. von Bitter delivered a series of lectures on
micropalaeontology in the Geology Department of the
University of T oronto.

Public Activities

Dr. Collins coordinated a successful public lecture series
on “Time” from January 29 to March 1 9. Lecturers were
from all over North America, and the calibre of the
lectures was consistently high. Total attendance for the
eight lectures was 1 ,000.

Between June 1 973 and December 1 974, the
Museumobile “Fossils of Ontario” visited 1 06 Ontario
communities, including 361 schools, 14 festivals and
fairs, 1 0 libraries, 9 local museums, 6 senior citizens’
homes, 4 professional meetings, and 4 universities and
colleges. Attendance was 80,473. The Museumobile was
on display at the annual meeting of the Geological
Association of Canada in Waterloo in May. An article by
Dr. Collins on the Museumobile and its activities
appeared in the Spring 1 975 issue of Geolog.

A direct result of the interest generated by the
Museumobile has been a sharp increase in requests for
identification of fossils. Mr. John Monteith has identified
about 750 specimens from outside Toronto in the past
year and has seen another 600 people personally to
answer queries and identify fossils.

Two localities in Ontario, near Craigleith and Schreiber,
are currently being assessed as potential Provincial
Nature Reserves on the recommendation of Dr. Collins.

Dr. von Bitter was leader of a palaeontology group in the
Toronto Junior Field Naturalists.

Museum Committees

Dr. Collins coordinated the revision of the “Statement of
Procedures and Policies for the Hiring, Promotion,

Tenure, Retirement and Non-Renewal of Appointments of
Curators of the Royal Ontario Museum” through the Joint
Curatorial Council. Dr. von Bitter continued as a member
of the Library Committee. Miss Joan Burke continued on
the Grievance Committee, was elected to the Council of
the Staff Association, and was the Staff Association
representative on the “Guidelines for Planning” Report
Review Committee.

Other Museum Activities

In addition to handling all of the queries and
identifications, John Monteith is also rehabilitating the
thin-section collection, a task requiring great skill. Huibert

Conophyton, a Precambrian algal stromatolite of the Sibley Group, near Thunder Bay, Ontario. These fossils are dated at about 1 .5 billion years.

Sabelis maintained the salt-water aquaria, prepared
ammonites from Kenya and India, and prepared Bryozoa
thin sections for Professor Fritz, and also identified shells
brought in by the public. Mrs. Pandora Buckley soon
learnt the requirements of the Micropalaeontology
Laboratory and is operating it competently. Robert
Barnett coordinated discussion on the gallery over the
past year and negotiated the transfer of the
palaeobotanical collection to the ROM, as well as
participating in gallery collecting trips. Mrs. Mary Taylor
continued her curation of our shell collection.

Miss Joan Burke, despite her committee obligations,
managed to carry out all of her many tasks as
Department Secretary, so that all of the above activities
were possible.

Our summer helpers, Brenda Curtis, David Rudkin, and
David Grawbarger in 1 974, and Steve LaForest in 1 975,
worked well. The volunteers from the Members’

Committee, Mrs. Frazer and Mrs. MacFeeters, also were
a great help in the past year.

We are looking forward to major progress in the
Department’s activities in the coming year.

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Department of Mammalogy

J.R. Tamsitt, Acting Curator-in-charge

The Department was unusually busy during the past
year. Dr. R.L. Peterson, Curator-in-charge, was on
sabbatical, and Dr. D. Valdivieso, Research Associate,
assisted Dr. Tamsitt with the usual departmental
activities.

As in past years, the staff handled an increasing number
of public enquiries, and loans of research material to
museums, universities, and other institutions in Canada
and elsewhere continued to be a vital departmental
activity. In the spring Mr. John Heppes of the Canadian
Wildlife Service and Dean Sidney Schipper of the Fashion
Technology Division, George Brown College of Applied
Arts and Technology, used our tanned skin collection to
compile an illustrated manual to aid customs officers in
identifying furs from rare species now forbidden entry
into Canada under the rules of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species.

During the year the Department underwent certain staff
changes. Mrs. D. Bunston, Department Secretary,
resigned in January. Ms. G. Rerup, who had held that
position previously, returned to the Department. Mr. B.
Herbert, Technician, left in March and Ms. L. Folds joined
our staff as his replacement. We welcomed Dr. Jessie
Rankin of the University of Waterloo, who was appointed
Research Associate in December. We were particularly
saddened by the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Allen
Outram in October. Mr. Outram had been a volunteer
worker in the Department for many years.

Collections and Acquisitions

Although problems of accommodating specimens
continue, donations, purchases, and field work by the
staff added to the collections many new records and
specimens of mammals from Ontario and other parts of
the world. A notable acquisition was the donation of 75
specimens from Ontario and England by Mr. Ronald
Brooman. Among other new specimens, examples of the
rare Dominican fig-eating bat and the Haitian flower bat
obtained by Mr. D. Nagorsen and Mr. Herbert are
noteworthy ( Rotunda , Winter 1975).

Research collections increased by 2,489 specimens
(2,084 bats). Data from an additional 1 ,800 specimens
were processed and catalogued and 6,000 new labels
were prepared from previously stored information. A
taxonomic sorting of data by the computerized storage-
retrieval system was operated by Mrs. Penny McGann.

A bronze sculpture of a barren-ground caribou group by
Mr. Robert Glen was acquired by the Department in May
and is exhibited with other sculptures in the bronze
gallery.

Exhibitions

In March the Department participated again in the annual
Canadian National Sportsmen’s Show, where some ROM
bronze mammal sculptures were exhibited.

The gallery renovation programme continued. With the
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Judy Eger examining the interior of a bat cave in Barbados.

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cooperation of Mr. David Pepper and the staff of the Art
Department, the new Ontario insectivore and bat display
is nearing completion, and a new diorama of Ontario
rodents has been designed. The Department also made
specimens available to Museology students for display in
mobile cases.

Teaching and Lectures

The mammalogy course (University of Toronto Zoology
466/1 01 9) was presented by Dr. Valdivieso and Dr.
Tamsitt, who is cross-appointed as an Associate
Professor of the University of T oronto. Dr. T amsitt
lectured to the Brodie Club, Toronto, in November, and
Ms. J. Eger was guest lecturer at the Brantford Nature

Club, Brantford, Ontario, in April. Dr. M.B. Fenton gave
lectures at Laurentian University and Simon Fraser
University in October, at the University of Western
Ontario in February, and at Boston University in
November.

Scientific Conferences

Drs. Peterson and Fenton and Ms. Eger presented papers
at the Fifth Annual North American Symposium on Bat
Research at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, in
November. In July Dr. Tamsitt attended the Second
National Symposium on Ecology at Bogota, Colombia. In
May Dr. Peterson represented the ROM at the third
annual meeting of the Association of Systematic
Collections at Cornell University. With Ms. Eger and Mr.
Nagorsen he also attended the annual meeting of the
American Society of Mammalogists at the University of
Montana in June.

Appointments and Honours

Dr. Tamsitt received a Senior Fulbright-Hays fellowship
for teaching and research at Javeriana University,

Bogota, Colombia, where part of his forthcoming
sabbatical will be spent. In August Dr. Valdivieso was
certified as a Specialist in Public Health and Medical
Laboratory Microbiology by the National Registry of the
American Academy of Microbiology. Ms. Eger was
elected an associate member of the Society of Sigma Xi,
the honorary scientific organization. Dr. Peterson
continued as Chairman of the Animal Care and Research
Committee and as a Director of the Metropolitan Toronto
Zoological Society. He also remained a member of the
Board of Directors and Chairman of the Honorary
Membership Committee of the American Society of
Mammalogists. Dr. Peterson is also on the Membership
Committee of the Association of Systematic Collections.

In July Dr. Fenton of Carleton University was promoted to
Associate Professor of Biology.

Field Work and Research

Although on sabbatical, Dr. Peterson continued his
systematic research on bats of the genus Miniopterus
occurring in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and on Arctic
hares, assisted by Dr. A.J. Baker and Ms. Eger. He is
preparing a chapter on bats for a book on Malagasy
mammals, edited by Dr. Jean Dorst. In collaboration with
Mr. Nagorsen he published data on the chromosomes of
1 5 species of African bats, and he also published a
popular article on Malagasy bats in Defenders of Wildlife.

Field work in July and August took Drs. Tamsitt and
Valdivieso to Colombia, where they continued their
studies of that country's fauna. They also published data
on thermal relations of a high-altitude frog of the family
Hylidae. Dr. Valdivieso continued research with Dr.
Peterson on the morphology and histology of structures
of bats related to sound production. Ms. Eger continued
work on geographic variation in the free-tailed bat
Molossus that occurs in tropical areas of the Caribbean.
She has also been busy preparing for publication her
systematic revision of free-tailed bats of the genus

Eumops. With the assistance of Dr. David Nellis, she
collected bats on the islands of St. Croix and St. John in
the U.S. Virgin Islands in January, and with Mr. Nagorsen
she collected on Antigua, Montserrat, Barbados, and St.
Vincent in the West Indies in May. Mr. Nagorsen and Mr.
Herbert conducted field work in the Dominican Republic
in August and September. Dr. Peterson and Mr.

Nagorsen were co-authors of a paper now in press,
describing the chromosomes of six species of bats from
that country.

A long-term project has been initiated by Mr. Nagorsen.
He and other staff members plan to collect specimens
from areas in Ontario not represented in the ROM or
National Museum collections.

Continuation of his research on the ecology,
echolocation, and relation of bats to certain prey insects
took Dr. Fenton to New Guinea in June and July and to
Arizona in June. He spent most of the summer at the
Queen’s University Biology Station, where he studied
feeding habits and activity patterns of southeastern
Ontario bats.

Curatorial staff and Research Associates were authors of
nine publications this year, and grants from the ROM,
from the National Research Council of Canada to Drs.
Peterson and Tamsitt, and from the Society of the Sigma
Xi Fund of Canada to Ms. Eger, supported research
activities.

Staff Notes

Ms. N. Grepe, Secretary, continued her valuable
assistance to the Department. Our technical staff
processed many new specimens and participated in
service activities. Mr. J. Borack continued his
photographic assistance to the staff, and Mr. Herbert and
Mr. A. Outram conducted various student groups through
the laboratory, demonstrating the preparation of
specimens. Mrs. S. Poray assisted the Art Department
with the preparation of the Ontario mammal display and
provided illustrations for publications. Ms. L. Lortie dealt
capably with a large volume of mensural data for
computer analyses. As in the previous year, Ms.

Margaret Conrad provided able assistance.

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Department of Mineralogy

J.A. Mandarino, Curator

Although financial restrictions, especially with regard to
the equipment budget, curtailed some of our activities,
the Department has had a busy, if somewhat frustrating,
year.

Research

Research continued to be an important part of the
Department’s activities. Dr. Mandarino and Mr. Sturman
were actively engaged in the description of a unique
assemblage of phosphate minerals from the Big Fish
River - Blow River Area of the Northern Yukon. The
study has already resulted in the discovery of several
new mineral species whose descriptions will be
forthcoming. Mr. Sturman submitted to the Joint
Committee on Powder Diffraction Standards a new
graphical method for the identification of minerals, using
the strongest lines from their x-ray powder diffraction
patterns. Dr. Wicks completed four papers on the
serpentine minerals, all of which have been submitted to
The Canadian Mineralogist , and continued his studies of
the asbestos deposits in the Eastern Townships of
Quebec. He also took part in a joint government and
industry field trip to examine the nickel deposits in the
Thompson area of Manitoba.

Dr. Mandarino finished the description of a new mineral,
mroseite, and the manuscript co-authored by Dr. R.S.
Mitchell and Dr. G.V. Hancock is in press with The
Canadian Mineralogist. He continued to do abstracts of
new minerals for The American Mineralogist. Dr. Gait has
been abstracting The Canadian Mineralogist for
Mineralogical Abstracts.

Mr. McKinnon has continued to work with Mr. Sturman in
the preparation of chemical standards for the x-ray
fluorescence spectrometer and has also continued to
operate the differential thermal analyzer.

More than 600 x-ray powder diffraction patterns were
produced, many of them by Mrs. C. Peat, who continued
to provide the routine x-ray powder diffraction
identifications needed for a collection as large as ours.
About 80 of the diffraction patterns referred to were
prepared by the Guinier method, and each one provides
data for at least three different minerals. Mr. Sturman has
made extensive use of the single crystal diffraction
equipment.

About 240 specimens were sent to 25 researchers in
other institutions and universities for study purposes.
While many of these were loans, a considerable number
were non-returnable fragments, but we do request that
the results of the study be given to us to provide a data
source on the specimens.

The research activities of the Department of Mineralogy
were restricted by this year’s financial cutbacks,
particularly with regard to the equipment allocation. We
had to accept $5,000 in place of our usual equipment
funding of about $1 3,000.

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Mineralogy staff members load a large specimen of nickel ore, weighing
about 1 ,500 lb. Left to right: Mr. David Dillon, Mr. Donald McKinnon, Mr.
Peter T eewiss, Dr. R.l. Gait.

Research Associates

Mrs. Violet Anderson has continued to take
photomicrographs of minerals and is currently
collaborating with Dr. Mandarino and Professor Guy
Perrault on an illustrated book describing the minerals of
Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec. Julius Weber took the 900
colour photographs in the recently published book
Encyclopedia of Minerals, of which he is co-author with
Willard Roberts and George Rapp. Dr. Jack Satterly has
continued his important work of tracking down and
checking Ontario mineral localities represented in our
collections. Mr. G. Grant Waite and Mr. E.B. Tiffany have
assisted admirably with the gemmological problems
faced by the Department during the year.

The Collections

Mrs. J. Galt registered over 500 specimens into the
collections, of which 25 are species not previously
represented. These are the minerals bonaccordite,
liebenbergite, stillwaterite, jahnsite, robertsite,
pentagonite, bunsenite, keyite, yedlinite, hilairite,
gaidonnayite, mroseite, jagowerite, kinoite, caysichite,
lokkaite, barrerite, mazzite, kozulite, nambulite,

yofortierite, jimboite, sonolite, malayaite, and
armstrongite. Among some of the exceptional display
pieces acquired this year are a magnificent pink beryl
crystal, nested in black tourmaline needles, from Brazil; a
superb cuprosklodowskite from Shaba, Zaire, which was
purchased with the generous assistance of the members
of the Walker Mineralogical Club; and fine lazulite and
wardite specimens presented by Mr. A. Kulan and Mr. G.
Penikis. A collection of 57 minerals from Japan was
acquired by exchange and has provided valuable
examples from some unusual localities, as well as
several species new to the collections. In addition to
attending to the incoming specimens for the main
reference collection, Mrs. Galt has continued to
rearrange drawers and cabinets to make much-needed
space.

It was decided late this year to discontinue bulk mineral
sales and the maintenance of a separate exchange
collection. Most of the material that was not moved to the
main reference collection has been disposed of by sale
to mineral dealers.

Presentations of specimens were made by numerous
friends of the Museum, whose support and generosity we
gratefully acknowledge. As usual, exchanges were
completed with other museums, organizations, dealers,
and collectors.

Public and Museum Service

As usual, our identification service was actively used by
the public; 21 1 specimens were identified for 95 people.
Most of these identifications were done by Mrs. C. Peat
and Mr. B.D. Sturman. Miss Driver answered 29 enquiries
by mail and numerous others by telephone.

Members of the staff were active with several groups of
amateur mineralogists such as the Baltimore Micromount
Symposium, the Greater Detroit Gem and Mineral Show,
the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, the Canadian Micro¬
mineral Association, the Walker Mineralogical Club, the
Gem and Mineral Club of Scarborough, a mineral
collectors’ symposium in Rochester, N.Y., and the
Ottawa Valley Gem and Mineral Club. Dr. Gait gave
several talks to amateur groups in South Africa just prior
to his return to Toronto. Dr. Wicks lectured on clay
minerals in the ROM Extension course “Ceramics for the
Collector” and gave several lectures on serpentine
minerals to university, government, and industry
geologists.

Dr. Mandarino spent a great deal of time and effort at
meetings of the Director’s Advisory Committee. Dr.

Wicks continued as Chairman of the Library Committee
and as a member of the Grievance Committee and the
Extension Committee.

sabbatical leave in South Africa in September. Mr. B.D.
Sturman was appointed to the permanent staff, and has
been working closely with Dr. Mandarino on some new
and exciting phosphate minerals from the Yukon
Territory. Mrs. William Lindsay assisted Mrs. Galt in
organizing the reference collection as part of the
Members’ Committee volunteer programme; her help is
gratefully acknowledged. Mr. David Dillon has joined us
for a few months as part of the Ontario Experience ’75
programme.

Dr. Mandarino and Dr. Wicks attended the meetings of
the International Mineralogical Association in Germany.
Dr. Wicks attended a course on thermal analysis in
Switzerland and later in the year completed some
research on the serpentine group of minerals with Dr.
E.J.W. Whittaker at Oxford in England. Dr. Mandarino and
Mr. Sturman travelled to Ross River in the Yukon and Mr.
Sturman was able to visit and collect from the new
phosphate occurrence. Dr. Mandarino, Dr. Gait, Dr.

Wicks, and Mr. Sturman were present at the annual
meeting of the Mineralogical Association of Canada in
Waterloo. Both Dr. Mandarino and Mr. Sturman
presented technical papers, and two exhibits were
prepared at the ROM for these meetings. An exhibit of
large colour prints of photomicrographs taken by Mrs.
Violet Anderson was prepared for the annual convention
of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Mr. Grassi has been extremely busy as machinist for the
department and for the Museum in general. Mr. Grassi’s
main contributions are in the areas of preventive
maintenance and innovative instrument-making.

Miss Helen Driver continued as Department Secretary, a
position that requires not only high secretarial
competence but also considerable ability in departmental
management.

Honours

Dr. Mandarino was re-elected for a third term as
President of the Mineralogical Association of Canada,
and Dr. Wicks was re-elected as Secretary. Dr. Gait was
elected President of the Mineral Museums Advisory
Council for 1975.

Staff

Susan Robinson has left the Department and we all wish
her a successful future. Dr. R.l. Gait returned from

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Department of Ornithology

J.C. Barlow, Curator

Gallery work and public service as well as research and
field work were featured in our programme in the past
year. Ornithological highlights included acquisition of the
first known tapes of the song of a female Gray Vireo and
the finding of the first nest of the Boreal Owl in Ontario.

Several staff changes occurred in 1 974-75. We regretted
the departures of Ms. Maria Thinh (Department
Secretary) in August; Mr. Ross Harris (Technician I) in
September; Ms. Donna Frosh (Department Secretary) in
November; and Mr. Michael McNall (Technician I) in
April. We welcomed to the staff Ms. Jan Schroer
(Secretary, Department Secretary) in September, Mr.
Bruce MacRobie (Junior Technician) in October; and Ms.
Mary Muckle (Secretary) in March.

Research and Publication

Field activities involving a number of staff members and
students were undertaken in Ontario, in western Canada,
in the southern and southwestern United States, in Fiji,
and in New Zealand. Species studied included
flycatchers, vireos, mynahs, oystercatchers, emberizid
finches, and House Sparrows.

In the Museum Dr. Barlow continued phenetic studies of
vireos and Passer and, with Dr. James, investigations of
Willow and Alder flycatchers. They have in press a paper
on the behaviour and ecology of the Mexican Chestnut¬
sided Shrike Vireo and, with Dr. Peter McLaren, have
finished the manuscript of a check-list of the birds of
Ontario. Dr. Baker completed work on the systematics,
morphological variation, hybridization, lipid levels, and
migration strategy of various New Zealand
oystercatches. He has published two important papers on
these topics and has two more in press. He also
continued work on the variation in New Zealand House
Sparrows and began studies of genetic and phenetic
covariation in various populations of the Common
Mynah. Dr. James continued spectrographic assessment
of evolutionary rates in communication systems of
Yellow-throated and Solitary vireos. Mr. Dick initiated a
systematic comparison of passerine families based on
skeletal characters.

Research Associates again played a major role in the
investigative output of the Department. Dr. Hansell
worked on strategic models in evolution and on a
multivariate assessment of the distribution of West Indian
birds. Rev. Long continued his studies of the behaviour
of the American Robin and of the systematics and
distribution of the African Violet-backed Starling. Dr.
Rising’s phenetic studies of Savannah Sparrows
progressed substantially, and he co-authored a major
paper on the relationships of Indigo and Lazuli buntings in
the Great Plains. Dr. Savage and Ms. Anne Rick (National
Museum of Canada) worked on a treatise on osteological
differences among bird families of archaeological
importance in North America. Dr. Peck (volunteer
scientist) again supervised the Ontario Nest Records
Scheme and published its 1 1th annual report in May.

Public and Museum Service

Central to our annual programme are the many services
provided by our staff to the public and to the Museum.
Technicians Glen Murphy, Lloyston Ferguson, Mike
McNall, and Bruce MacRobie demonstrated preparations,
answered questions about birds, and conducted student
groups through the preparation laboratory. Dr. Savage
identified a number of avian and mammalian bone
specimens from the public and from archaeological sites
in Saskatchewan and southern Labrador. In addition to
answering general questions about birds, Mr. Dick
conducted various groups, including members of the
Ontario Bird-banding Association, through the Bird Room.

Dr. James, Jan Schroer, and Dr. Barlow organized a
temporary exhibition demonstrating social (nest)
parasitism in birds. Displays in the bird gallery were
revised by Dr. Barlow, Mr. Dick, and Jan Schroer.

Mounts were arranged to show the 28 living orders of
birds. A display of North American cranes was also
prepared.

Dr. Barlow finished his term as editor of the ROM’s Life
Sciences Publications in December, but continues on the
Editorial Board for one more year. He also served on the
Curatorial Promotions Committee, and was again on
several committees for the American Ornithologists’

Union and the Wilson Ornithological Society. Dr. Baker
was the ROM’s representative on the National Inventory
Committee, and also gave extensive tuition on
multivariate techniques to students and staff. Dr. James
was again on the ROM’s Temporary Exhibition
Committee. Mr. Dick was secretary of the Science
Curators’ Council. Ms. Schroer served on the Staff
Council of the Staff Association and on the T riannual
Staff Art Show Committee, and was Staff Association
observer to the Art and Archaeology Curatorial Council.

Meetings and Grants

Dr. Barlow received the third instalment of a grant from
the National Research Council of Canada for studies of
evolutionary rates in vireos and other birds. Dr. Peck
received a grant from the Canadian National Sportsmen’s
Show in support of the Ontario Nest Records Scheme.

Dr. Savage’s research in faunal archaeology continued
with the aid of a grant from the Canada Council. Again
we shared with the Department of Invertebrate
Palaeontology a grant from the National Museums of
Canada for cataloguing of backlog material.

Drs. Baker, Barlow, and James attended the 16th
International Ornithological Congress in Canberra,
Australia, in August 1974. Dr. Baker spoke on
“Systematics and evolution of Australasian
oystercatchers”; Dr. Barlow on “Phenetics and
evolutionary rates of vireos”; and Dr. James on
“Evolution of social behaviour and the taxonomic
relationship of Solitary and Yellow-throated vireos”. In
October Dr. Barlow and Mr. Dick attended the 92nd
meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union at the

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University of Oklahoma and, following that, the first
Chihuahuan Desert Research Symposium at Sul Ross
State University, Alpine, Texas, where Dr. Barlow gave
an invited paper entitled “Habitat attrition and the
distribution of vireos in the northern Chihuahuan Desert".
He also went to a symposium on Guadalupe Mountains
National Park in Lubbock, Texas, in April. In June Dr.
Baker attended the Evolution Society meeting in Davis,
California.

Research Associates were active at scientific meetings.
In March Dr. Savage chaired a symposium which he had
organized, at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Archaeological Association at Lakehead University,
Thunder Bay. Dr. Hansell went to the Numerical
Taxonomy meeting in Portugal in August; the meeting of
the Society for Biomathematics in Ohio in March; and in
June to the Second International Symposium on
Educational Testing in Switzerland, where he gave a
paper entitled “On testing R levels of learning with
multiple-choice computer-marked questions".

Special lectures were given by Dr. Savage on faunal
analysis at Laurentian University, Sudbury, and at
Centennial College, Scarborough; by Dr. Baker on
oystercatchers at S.U.N.Y., Buffalo; by Dr. James on

avian zoogeography to students from the University of
Toronto; and by Rev. Long on birds in general to
students at Cannington Public School and to adults in
Port Perry, Beaverton, and Toronto.

Teaching Programmes

Dr. Barlow, as Associate Professor of Zoology,

University of T oronto, again taught Zoology 467/1 020
(Systematic Ornithology) based upon the ROM’s study
collection. He supervised the research of two M.Sc., one
M. Museology, and four Ph.D. candidates. Their studies
comprised Boreal Owl biology, Whimbrel ecology,
variation in Red-eyed Vireos, variation in Warbling Vireos,
Warbler ecology, social interaction in vireos, and
blackbird sympatry. Dr. Baker again taught an adult
education course on birds at Northview Heights High
School. He and Dr. Hansell taught a course for the
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, in
multivariate methods in biological classification. Dr.
Savage continued to teach a graduate course in faunal
archaeo-osteology in the Department of Anthropology,
University of T oronto. Dr. Rising, a member of the staff of
the University of Toronto, supervised the graduate
research of three Ph.D. candidates working on polygeny
in Lark Buntings, evolutionary rates in leopard frogs, and
DNA-DNA hybridization in juncos.

A young Grackle shortly after leaving the nest

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Department of Vertebrate
Palaeontology

Gordon Edmund, Curator

The year was spent in making the transition from the
recently completed six-year display programme to a
more normal balance of activities. Long outstanding
exchanges, preparation, curation of specimens, and other
projects were integrated with field work, research, and
teaching.

The collections are now in better order than they were a
year ago. A new cataloguing system makes possible
easy retrieval of specimen data based on any of four
criteria— numerical, systematic, stratigraphic, and
faunistic. New storage units for both large and small
specimens have been installed, providing, for the first
time, easy access to certain parts of the collection.

The galleries continue to draw good crowds. Very little
vandalism has occurred in the open dinosaur dioramas.
The extensive use of audio-visual equipment has been a
great success, with gratifying public response at all age
levels. The unit cost of maintenance has been quite low,
especially when the almost constant use of the
equipment is considered.

Staff

Mrs. Shirley Saunders replaced Mrs. Jane Dack as
Department Secretary. Miss Joanne Lindsay was
reclassified as Research Assistant and has been doing an
excellent job of cataloguing, curating, and acting as
scientific assistant to the curators. University and high-
school students hired during the summer contributed
greatly to the success of field work and curation.

Dr. McGowan continues to serve as Chairman of the
Grievance Committee, and is a member of the Project
Control Group. Both Dr. McGowan and Dr. Edmund
participated in several radio and television programmes
during the year.

Field Work

Remains of several mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and other
marine animals were recovered during strip-mining
operations near Morden, southwest of Winnipeg,
Manitoba. The project, begun in the summer of 1974,
continued in 1 975 with two staff members and two
University of Toronto students. Side trips from the
Morden Project produced a bison skeleton, as well as
hundreds of small teeth and bones of Upper Cretaceous
mammals from near Fort Peck, Montana, and a small
collection of Oligocene mammals from the Cypress Hills
of Saskatchewan.

Dr. L.S. Russell, supported by National Research Council
grant 2685, continued field work on the faunal
succession and stratigraphic correlation of Lower
Cretaceous formations in Alberta and Montana. His 1 975
work is centred south of the Fort Peck Reservoir,
Montana.

During July 1 974, Dr. C.S. Churcher and student Stephen
C. Campbell spent a week at Nahani National Park,

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N.W.T., recording the remains of Holocene age animals
in Caverne Valerie. The frozen cave contained 108 Dali
Sheep along with other mammals.

Teaching

Two students who began with Dr. Russell completed
their doctoral research under Dr. Edmund. Mark Wilson
described the Tertiary Fish Faunas of British Columbia,
while Paul Ramaekers devised a method for quantifying
and statistically examining the teeth of small fossil
mammals. Dr. McGowan continues to supervise the
research of Ph.D. student Mrs. Rosemary Johnson, who
is working on the functional morphology of the pectoral
girdle of ichthyosaurs. Dr. C.S. Churcher is currently
supervising three graduate students: Miss Brenda Beebe
(Pleistocene foxes from Peru), Miss Anne Holland (fossil
horses), and Mr. Stephen Campbell (Pleistocene fauna of
La Carolina, Ecuador). Drs. Edmund, McGowan, and
Russell were all involved with teaching at the University
of Toronto this year.

Scientific Conferences

Drs. Churcher, Edmund, Parsons, and Russell attended
the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology at Flagstaff, Arizona, in October. Dr.

Edmund participated in the post-meeting field
conferences on the nearby Permo-Triassic deposits.

In June, Dr. McGowan attended the Symposium on
Evolutionary Biology at the Davis Campus, University of
California. Dr. Russell reported on his work on the
Cretaceous of Western North America to the Geological
Association of Canada at Waterloo, Ontario.

Research and Publications

A paper on a new genus and species of ichthyosaur from
England, by Dr. McGowan, is now in press. A series of
studies on ichthyosaurs, dealing with interrelationships,
growth and development, etc., is in progress. This
research, and the assistance of Mrs. Erica Wolff, are
supported by National Research Council grant A9550.

Dr. L.S. Russell published a paper on the Oligocene fossil
horses of Saskatchewan, based largely on our Cypress
Hills collection. He has also completed a manuscript on
the freshwater molluscs of the Hell Creek Formation of
Montana, the youngest Cretaceous non-marine molluscan
fauna in this region. Dr. Russell has contributed to the
collection by sorting and identifying the small mammal
remains from the Hell Creek beds, near Fort Peck,
Montana.

The Pleistocene mammalian remains from the Wellsch
Valley, Saskatchewan, were studied by Dr. Churcher and
prepared for publication by the Geological Survey of
Canada. This fauna is unique in having a strange
association of early and late Pleistocene elements. Dr.
Churcher also revised his chapters on the history of the
Equidae and Giraffidae for the book on Cenozoic
mammals of Africa and has redrawn the animal

A ROM field crew excavates a scattered partial mosasaur skeleton in ancient ocean-floor sediments uncovered during strip-mining, near Morden,
Manitoba.

illustrations for the joint paper with Dr. Stalker (Geological
Survey of Canada) on the Pleistocene deposits of
Medicine Hat, Alberta. Dr. Churcher continued to serve
as editor for the 300-page volume of contributed papers
in honour of Dr. L.S. Russell.

The giant armadillo Chlamytherium is the subject of
current research by Dr. Edmund. As a result of a week at
the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and a month at
the Florida State Museum, the manuscript and
illustrations are well in hand, and much of the
distributional and metrical data are tabulated. Dr. Edmund
was also asked to describe the skull of the specimen of
Chlamytherium collected in Kansas by the late Dr.

Claude Hibbard, the most northerly record of this
supposedly tropical animal.

The Collections

Eleven modular storage cabinets were installed in an
extension of the mezzanine in the office area, this being
the maximum foreseeable expansion possible in this
area. By reducing the work space in the preparation lab,
Room 1 0, 36 further cabinets were added. Storage bays
housing 2’ x 4’ dollies for larger specimens were installed
beneath these cabinets to house larger specimens. Plans

have been made to replace all the substandard cabinets
with this system during the forthcoming year.

New steel shelving in the Weston warehouse will
accommodate field equipment and the larger unprepared
specimens. The latter will be arranged by dates and field
numbers for easier retrieval.

Kenneth Campbell of the University of Florida has
completed study of the 6,000 bird bones collected by Dr.
Edmund in Peru in 1 958. More than 20 new species were
described.

Exchanges with other institutions and individuals brought
to the ROM a replica of the ostrich-like dinosaur
Gallimimus (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), a
reference collection of small mammal teeth and jaws
(University of California, Berkeley), and a collection of
Pleistocene mammal bones (Mr. and Mrs. William
Brayfield, El Jobean, Florida and Mr. Sonny Hazeltine,
North Port, Florida).

Specimens added to the catalogued collection during the
year numbered 6,458 items, making a total of 1 9,499
specimens.

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Archives Department

Margaret Walker, Archives Officer

It is hard to believe that twelve months have passed
since the last call came from the Director for year-end
departmental reports: time passes quickly when one is
engaged in the fascinating task of assembling and
maintaining archives. Since annual reports are the
concern of all departments at this time, I should like to
state that these are among the most valuable of the
Museum’s historical records.

Acquisitions

This past year, several objects were accessioned into
archives. Even though they belong to the Museum,
having been presented to the Board of T rustees, these
items had not yet been registered because they were not
classed as part of the departmental collections. The
Conservation Department has undertaken to affix the
accession numbers and so complete this record. Six of
the objects are to be seen in the main Rotunda of the
Museum: the bronze bust of our founder and first
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Sir Edmund Walker;
the bronze bust of the first Director of the Royal Ontario
Museum of Archaeology; two lead cisterns; and two lead
lions’ heads. The bronze bust of the late Bishop White,
scholar and benefactor, associated with the Museum for
many years, is to be found in Gallery 2 of the Far Eastern
Department. The oil portrait of the late Dr. Currelly,
painted in 1935 by the outstanding Canadian artist
George A. Reid, R.C.A., hangs in Dr. Tushingham’s
office.

My thanks to the following departments for their
contributions during the past year: Art Department, Office
of the Chief Archaeologist, Education, Entomology,
European, Far Eastern, Geology, Information Services,
McLaughlin Planetarium, Mineralogy, Ornithology,
Programme Secretary’s Office, and Registration.

Contributions are gratefully acknowledged also from the
following individual donors: Mr. Duncan Cameron, Dr.
Madeleine Fritz, Miss Sylvia Hahn, Mr. C.P. Kaellgren,
and Mr. W. Renison.

The material received from the Planetarium is in the
process of being organized and the task is proving to be
a very satisfying one. The material contains the story of
the Planetarium, from the proposal to the edifice.
Although it is of recent vintage in terms of archival
records, it bears out the fact that records faithfully kept
portray the drama of an institution’s evolution as nothing
else can.

Other Activities

The catalogue of photographs grows and I am very
grateful to Margaret Cumming, retired member of the
Education Department, who has assisted in this area on a
volunteer basis.

The accompanying photograph shows Argyll House, the
Campbell home, which had to be demolished to make
way for the 1 930 wing of the Museum. This photograph
is reproduced by courtesy of Professor H.M. Milnes,
Archivist of University College.

The records are proving to be of value for in-house use
as well as for students and researchers in the historical
field.

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Art Department

David Pepper, Coordinator

The Art Department has now performed for one full year
in its expanded capacity as supplier of fine artwork to all
departments in the Museum.

Coming of Age

The first major project of the fiscal year was a very apt
symbol of our new role. We were required to design a
rest area with the atmosphere of a formal Chinese
garden, where visitors to The Chinese Exhibition could
relax. In the same area we had to create a display of
material from China supplied by the ROM science
departments.

The garden itself was made with gravel-filled partitions
and artificial plants. Weeping willows and bamboo were
remodelled to make them more lifelike and were set up in
“plantings” around the third-floor Rotunda. One rest area
was screened by a miniature bamboo grove. Background
atmosphere was added by large photo murals of famous
Chinese gardens as well as two large theme symbols
designed after jade cicadas. A dozen Chinese wicker
garden stools completed the setting.

In order to make the five science exhibits more effective,
each was set up with a combined display of natural
specimens, artistic representations, and related artifacts.
Thus the Mineralogy case contained raw specimens of
jade, rock crystal, cinnabar, and other minerals, along
with such articles as snuff bottles and incense burners
made from the same materials. An ancient fan-painting of
insects was displayed with their actual counterparts,
while the brilliantly hued birds embroidered on court
officials’ robes were set off with mounted birds— quail,
golden pheasant, and egret. Mammalogy and
Palaeontology were represented in the same manner,
and Ichthyology supplied live fish of Chinese origin for
the central aquariums.

One of our main objectives in this display was to prove
that the integration of archaeology and the life and earth
sciences in Museum displays not only is possible, but
also can open up a whole new range of potential exhibits
and even galleries. This endeavour marks the first
definition of the Art Department’s scope, which is to
cover the field of fine art work in the Museum,
coordinating the contributions of curator and artist into a
unified plan. We wish to encourage the interweaving of
disciplines in order to broaden the effectiveness of
Museum exhibits.

Archaeology

We produced a painting illustrating the 1 7th-century
Hudson’s Bay Company post at Moose Factory for
Ontario Archaeology, and for their new gallery we made
full-scale replicas of palaeolithic weapons and tools. In
preparation for these galleries are figures of ancient
Ontario peoples, which will be dressed, repainted, and
equipped with appropriate accessories.

A special display of Japanese arms and armour was
prepared for the Japanese galleries during The Chinese

Newly designed exhibit in the Armour Court, showing suits of armour,
pole-arms, and other military weapons and accoutrements of the Edo
era (1603-1 868).

Exhibition, bringing to light many artifacts which had not
previously been on view. This exhibit was later
reassembled in a modified form and is currently on
display in the Armour Court.

A series of illustrations taken from Greek pottery and a
set of posters and graphics were made up for a special
travelling exhibit, “Greek and Roman Life in Miniature”.
For the Egyptian Department, two reconstructed, full-
colour illustrations of ancient Nubians in costume were
painted to accompany an exhibit of Nubian artifacts in the
outdoor showcases. A set of colour posters and graphics
was made for the Textile Department’s exhibit
“Furnishing Fabrics for the Ontario Home”. To introduce
a large selection of Japanese hand-made papers in the
main gift shop, a unique poster was assembled from this
paper which explained various ways it might be used.

A major task was the preparation of the large habitat
group for the new Northwest Coast Ethnology gallery.
Many hours of research were required to ensure
accuracy. Six of the old human figures made in 1 91 9
were found to have totally inaccurate facial features,
although the bodies themselves were well sculpted. With
1 9th-century photographs as a guide, the faces were
completely remodelled, and the entire figures were
repainted. Authentic tribal hair styles, clan tattoos, and
jewellery were added. Articles of dress or ornament not
available from the collections were made in authentic
style, so that the final arrangement is an accurate
glimpse of the life of the Haida people in the last century.
For the same gallery, a life-sized figure of a Kwakiutl
dancer was made.

Science Departments

Our current project for Mammalogy is a major display of
insectivores (bats, moles, and shrews) using a large

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three-section exhibit case modified into a cutaway
diorama. This is due to be finished in the autumn of
1 975. In addition, the old mounted jaguar was given a
thorough renovation and a new case background.

Two small exhibits were prepared for Entomology.
“Insects in Amber” traces step by step the process by
which these creatures became fossilized. Another exhibit
demonstrates the effect of industrial pollution on pepper
moths. Illustrated studies of water mites in motion and a
large series of flatworm illustrations were prepared for
publication.

Cross-sections as well as a greatly enlarged model of a
shark’s scale were made for the Ichthyology Gallery. For
Vertebrate Palaeontology a detailed set of illustrations of
an ichthyosaur skull and other skeletal parts was drawn.
Illustrations for several publications and exhibits, as well
as display designs, were prepared for Mineralogy. For
Ornithology a set of full-colour illustrations was painted
for the exhibit “Nest Parasitism in Birds”. For the same
show, a dozen old bird specimens were repaired,
cleaned, and remounted.

Special Events and Other Functions

The usual minor repairs and upkeep to old exhibits
continued, and a large number of small projects were
handled as time permitted.

Two special programmes were presented to pupils at the
University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study, one on
beetles and the other on feudal Japan. A similar
programme was presented at the North Bridlewood
Junior Public School. Illustrated lectures on Japanese
swords and history were presented at the Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre and the Toronto Aikikai. In both
instances members of the audience brought samurai
swords for identification. During the year, several public-
school groups arranged brief visits to the Department in
order to get a glimpse of what goes on behind the
scenes.

This has been a very busy and significant year for the
Department, and the greatest share of the credit must go
to Sylvia Plahn and Julian Mulock, both fine artists and
craftsmen. Terry Shortt, Chief Artist, has devoted the
entire year to the successful organizing and preparation
of “Animals in Art”, due to open in October 1 975. This
will certainly be the best and most varied show of wildlife
art ever exhibited.

Book and Gift Shop

Patricia L. Dowton, Manager and Buyer

Last year brought record sales to all of the ROM’s shops.
The Chinese Exhibition, which opened at the height of
the tourist season, helped to draw large numbers of
visitors into the shops. As with several other of the
Museum's departments, the sales office staff was kept
extremely busy before, during, and after the exhibition.

In addition to its regular duties, the staff operated two
additional sales areas at the exhibition itself. Books,
posters, charts, and postcards were selected; artists were
found to recreate some of the outstanding archaeological
finds in jewellery and replicas; and the many other items
for sale in all five sales areas were chosen and bought.

We were fortunate to have local artists design in silver a
Flying Horse of Kansu pin and charm— both of which
sold out— a silver camel charm, a gilt Flying Horse pin,
and a Whistling Actor pendant. During the opening
weeks of the exhibition the weather remained warm
enough to enable us to sell some 1 0,000 hand-painted
silk fans, an item of particular delight to children. Crafts
from the People’s Republic of China were featured in the
main Book and Gift Shop, and included carvings in
soapstone, jade, and ivory. One of the most popular items
was the box of hasti-notes, “One Hundred Beauties”,
reproduced from a section of the scroll on display in the
ROM’s Far Eastern galleries. It was extremely helpful
to have Miss Pat Brundrit, of the ROM’s Personnel
Department, take over the supervision of the staff for the
exhibition shops, which involved many long hours of work.

Increasing numbers of children seemed to enjoy the Mini
Shop. Models of prehistoric animals are most popular,
and many of the very small children enthusiastically
identify them by their scientific names. Crafts from
Mexico— miniature clay animals, birds, straw animals—
along with Christmas tree ornaments made of shell from
the Philippines and ROM publications are among the
articles that make the Mini Shop an interesting and
educational attraction to children of all ages.

The Christmas-card booth opened in the main Rotunda in
October, and also had record sales— up more than 45%
over the previous year.

We hope that the near future will bring an expansion of
the Planetarium shop. A stock of our own scholarly
publications and teaching kits would then be made
available to teachers and students.

A new programme of ROM reproductions and replicas is
also among our future plans. We hope to reproduce such
items as jewellery and other art pieces taken from the
Museum’s collections; two new ROM Christmas cards;
one new hasti-note; and two series of postcards, one of
quilts and coverlets, the other for the forthcoming
“Animals in Art” exhibition.

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Again I would like to thank those ROM departments that
have contributed to the success of the shops, as well as
my own staff.

Design Department

J.R. Anthony, Chief Designer

The Design Department is a small but versatile and
creative design team capable of dealing with many tasks
beyond those of pure display. It is constantly under
pressure for renovations to permanent galleries and to
office and laboratory space, as well as for the mounting
of temporary exhibitions.

Exhibits

The past fiscal year started with perhaps the largest and
most complicated international exhibition held at the
ROM, ‘‘The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of The
People’s Republic of China”, or what we generally called
The Chinese Exhibition. The problems encountered in
mounting this exhibit were, to put it mildly, diverse.
Exhibition Hall, together with the Armour Court and an
area surrounding the Lee Collection were used to form
the main exhibit of slightly more than 1 6,000 square feet,
the existing displays being built in behind the walls.
Third-floor and lower Rotunda displays were keyed into
the main exhibit, as were displays in our outside cases,
the subway, and the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Special
advertising kiosks, holding tents, and a ticket booth were
set up along Avenue Road to handle the crowds.

One of our prime concerns was to make this whole
system come together into a cohesive whole in the 23
days between the closing of the Indian Art Exhibition and
the planned opening date of The Chinese Exhibition.
Exhibition labels, graphics, and the placement of artifacts
had to be rigorously checked and approved by the
Chinese after their arrival in late July, with the result that
some installations were done virtually on opening night.
Needless to say, the task of getting it all together
involved many late nights; however, the resulting
exhibition was comfortable to view and accommodated
the large attendance with ease. I am happy to say that
the final audience reaction to this exhibition has been
outstandingly positive. During the assembly of this
exhibition, we participated in a documentary show
produced for educational television, which helped bring
into focus for the public the many facets of an exhibition
of this scope.

Other large exhibitions this year were ‘‘Florentine
Baroque Bronzes and Other Objects of Art”, “Images of
Eighteenth-Century Japan”— a superb selection of
Japanese prints from the ROM’s own collection— and
finally “Images: Stone B.C ”, perhaps the largest exhibit
of this specific art form ever shown in North America.

Several graphic exhibitions were mounted in the lower
Rotunda, including “Photo Poetry of Canada” by E.

Zuber and “New Zealand Stamps”, while in the third-
floor Rotunda, “Victoriana” caused much interest.
Exhibits in our outside showcases included Egyptian
material, Canadiana, and European subjects. New
outside exhibit points were acquired in the Museum
subway station and in the concourse of the new Toronto-
Dominion Tower, and have included material from our

Chinese, South American, Canadiana, and Central
American collections.

For the second year we placed an exhibit in the
Canadian National Sportsmen’s Show, which included
bronze animal sculptures and data on other ROM
projects.

Gallery Construction

One of our main projects during the past year has been
to make some changes in the Ethnology galleries. The
Northwest Coast area was redone, and work was begun
on a new Ontario Archaeology Gallery. Some initial
design work has started for the Plains Gallery, and that
renovation is planned for the coming year.

Design work has been progressing on a new Invertebrate
Palaeontology Gallery and it is hoped that funding can be
found for this project.

A special climate-controlled gallery has been completed
in the European section to hold a new collection of
German Baroque furniture. The final installation of objects
will be completed by September after the necessary
conservation work has been done during the summer.

The Planetarium’s third-floor gallery was altered to allow
more frequent changes of graphic displays. It is hoped
that some permanent three-dimensional displays can be
added in the coming year.

Building Renovation

Activities in this area have been slower than in previous
years, mainly because we are out of space; however,
necessary modifications were made to the Far Eastern
study rooms and in Conservation. Before The Chinese
Exhibition we were able to add a ramp for wheel-chairs at
the front of the building and a chair lift in Exhibition Hall,
two worthwhile improvements. While The Chinese
Exhibition has necessitated the alteration of some
programmes, we are catching up on our scheduled
projects and look forward to an active and fruitful year
ahead.

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Education Services

Riley E. Moynes, Chairman

The year 1 974-75 has been essentially a “planting” year
for Education Services. New staff, new policies, new
areas of educational interest, and new ideas might be
seen as the seeds; future years will, we believe, bring an
abundant harvest.

Teacher Training

In 1974-75 Education Services continued and expanded
its work in the area of teacher training. Because we
believe that teachers must be informed if they are to
make good educational use of the Museum, we
continued our programme as Associates in the Faculties
of Education both at the University of Toronto and at
Lakehead University. Student teachers came to us from
both of these institutions for periods ranging from two
weeks to one month and were given the opportunity to
teach in our galleries under expert guidance. In addition,
we visited the Faculties of Education at Toronto and
Kingston to lecture on the means by which teachers can
plan and organize for a successful Museum visit. In the
same vein, arrangements were made with the
Department of Continuing Education at the University of
Toronto and with the Ontario Teachers’ Federation to
provide professional development courses and seminars
in the ROM commencing in September 1975.

Inter departmental Liaison

in an effort to live up to our name of Education Services,
we worked closely with others in order to be of
assistance to many Museum departments. Selected
Museology students were given the opportunity to put
theory into practice by becoming instructors in the
Saturday Morning Club, and one Museology student
became a member of our part-time teaching staff. We
continued to work closely with Extension Services,
particularly in helping to train Museumobile drivers to be
effective educators as they travel throughout the
province.

First steps were taken in contributing ideas for the design
of new displays. We were consulted by the Design
Department on the work currently being carried out in the
Ethnology galleries, and meetings were held with
curatorial staff responsible for the new Ontario
Archaeology gallery. The purpose of these meetings was
to ensure the value of the new exhibits from the
curatorial, design, and educational points of view. We
hope and trust that such advice will be useful in future
design plans.

Cooperation with Others in the Field

This year members of our Department were asked to
serve as consultants to the newly re-opened Museums of
Man and Natural Science in Ottawa. Having spent time in
their museums, we were asked to evaluate their teaching
programmes. This year, too, Mr. Moynes was asked to
assist the Metro Zoo in developing better ways of dealing
with the large numbers of school students who visit the
new Zoo. We also cooperated with the Toronto Historical
Board in an archaeological excavation held last autumn
at Fort York, and we assisted in the advertising and the
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recruitment of students for this programme. Later in the
year we worked with the Metro Toronto Conservation
Authority, the Board of Education for the Borough of
North York, and the Office of the Chief Archaeologist in
the ROM to establish a credit course in Canadian Studies,
which is now offered at the Boyd Site in Woodbridge.
Continued cooperation of this sort is anticipated.

Educational Activities Outside the ROM

To remain abreast of developments in the field of
museum education in North America, it is important to
exchange ideas with others in the field. This year two
members of our staff visited museums in New York City
and examined their teaching programmes; four of our
teachers visited Ottawa to see the Museum of Man, the
Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Gallery;
one visited the Carborundum Museum in Niagara Falls,
New York; and one visited the Corning Glass Works in
New York State. In addition, two of our staff visited the
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature while attending the
annual Canadian Museums Association conference in
Winnipeg in May.

The Chinese Exhibition

Like many other departments, Education Services was
deeply involved with The Chinese Exhibition. Mondays
were designated as student days, and our entire energies
on those days were expended in attempting to keep the
visiting school groups on schedule in order to avoid
lengthy delays. The demand from schools was so heavy
that Friday mornings were also designated as student
days. However, as many members of the public also
attended the exhibition on Mondays and Fridays, we
found ourselves acting as assistants to individual visitors
as well as to students. It was an exhilarating experience,
but it was also nice to return to normal.

Professional Associations

The Chairman of the Department was elected to the
Governing Council of the Ontario Museum Association
this year and was involved in policy planning for that
young but growing organization. He was also elected
from the education sector to the Nominating Committee
of the Canadian Museums Association at the annual
conference.

New Programmes

The staff spent considerable time this year in formulating
and formalizing some new programmes which we hope
will be valuable additions to our already large repertoire.
We developed for the first time a formal training
programme for all of our part-time teaching staff. It will
help guarantee a very high level of competence on the
part of all the part-time teachers, and will undoubtedly
help to ensure that the learning experience will be of
uniformly high quality. We also developed a programme
to be made available to school students in the classroom
before their Museum visit. This programme, which will be
carried out by volunteers trained by our staff, will provide
teachers and students with background information and
will stimulate their interest, so that they will receive
maximum benefit from their Museum visit.

Mrs. Ruth Young, part-time teacher, in the Armour Court with a high school class.

Finally, arrangements were made to have our teaching
staff associated with a curatorial department for a month
in the summer. The plan is that our staff will offer their
experience and expertise to the operation of the
curatorial department (and thus be of real assistance to
that department), while at the same time gathering new
information which they will later find useful in their
teaching. All curatorial departments were extremely
cooperative and we look forward to the success of the
programme.

Staff Changes

There were considerable personnel changes this year in
Education Services. We welcomed Mr. Ron Miles to our
teaching staff; previously he had taught for five years at
Gloucester High School in Ottawa. Andrea Neale joined
us from another Museum department, and Mrs. Carol
Barton also joined our staff. All have made positive
contributions to our operation.

more than 20 years, guiding it through its formative
stages and seeing it blossom in the last 1 0 years. From
January, when she resigned as Chairman, to June, when
she retired from the Museum, Norma assembled papers
and documents relating to the development of education
and extension work in the ROM. She will continue to
work on this project during the first part of her retirement.
We wish her well.

Student Visitors

Finally, mention should be made of the number of
students who visited the ROM this year. Though numbers
are not by themselves of the utmost significance, they do
suggest that many teachers and students see the
Museum as a valuable resource and wish to use it in
relation to their school studies. We welcome their interest
and will continue to work with them in order to enable
them to make the best possible use of our teaching staff
and the ROM’s outstanding collections.

Also this year we wished Miss Norma Heakes all the best
in her retirement. Norma headed the Department for

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Extension Services

David A. Young, Chairman

Through grants provided by Outreach Ontario, a
programme of the Ministry of Culture and Recreation, the
new Department of Extension Services, formerly Visitor
Services Development, has been able to lay the
foundations for an expanded programme of Museum
extension.

Outreach

During the first six weeks of operation of our Outreach
Ontario project, begun on June 1 7, 1 974, we hired
designers; leased, refurbished, and equipped a facility at
Dupont Street; began work on one exhibit; drew up plans
for further exhibits; and took the first steps to establish
effective procedures. During the following eight weeks
we completed an exhibit on textiles for Ridgetown,

Ontario; continued work on our Dupont Street workshop;
refurbished 1 5 travelling cases designed for classroom
use; began to up-date and rewrite the “Teacher’s Notes”
that accompany these cases; and carried further our
central objective of developing procedures within the
ROM and investigating the needs, facilities, and
resources of institutions in the province.

From October to December, the Ridgetown exhibit was
moved to a store front for a display of local costumes
and textiles, circa 1875; “Sporting Life in Early Canada”,
a Canadiana print show, was exhibited in Thunder Bay as
part of its Winter Games festival; work was begun on
developing a design for exhibit cases of outstanding
quality to be used in large-scale travelling exhibits;
designs were prepared for the fixtures of the ROM room
at the Windsor Art Gallery; designs were developed for a
new travelling case for classroom use; and a cabinet
maker was hired.

From January to June, the major work of our Dupont
Street staff was the production of a prototype exhibit
case and display unit for our highest quality large-scale
travelling exhibitions. Since this design meets problems
hitherto unsolved, it has been a highly creative and
painstaking process.

Our production unit was interrupted in its work on exhibit
cases to complete a two-dimensional show of
watercolour paintings of original Indian pictographs. This
show, called “Dream Doorways to Mamto Power”, was
completed for the Grey-Bruce Arts Fest held from
February 6 to March 5. The artist, Selwyn Dewdney, was
engaged to lecture at each location, and since that time
we have prepared additional support material. The costs
of this exhibit were carried by Festival Ontario, and it will
be used in other festivals as well as our general Outreach
circuit over the next three years.

Our production staff has also assisted graduate students
in the Museology programme, who have undertaken as
part of their course to produce travelling cases of
artifacts and specimens for classroom use. This project is
another example of the kind of inter-departmental
coordination which is vital to the success of our programme.
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The 1 5 travelling cases refurbished last fall were
circulated during the winter, primarily in the northwestern
part of Ontario, and evaluations by teachers and students
have assisted us in improving and expanding this
programme. A new case has been designed for this
purpose.

A story-line for the first Windsor exhibit has been
developed. The title is “European Elegance in Colonial
Canada”. A grant from the Secretary of State’s office will
cover production and circulation costs. The exhibit will
be circulated throughout the province and although the
schedule has not been finalized, centres in Sudbury,

Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, and Thunder Bay have
expressed interest in the show. The largest part of the
exhibit is furniture, which will be exhibited in about five
different locations in the province over a 1 5-month period
from September 1 975 to December 1 976. The furniture
will then be available to a provincial museum or gallery
on a one-year renewable loan. The furniture exhibit will
also have three added components: a small exhibit of
textiles, another of prints, and a third composed of glass,
ceramics, ironware, and treen. Each of these exhibits will
be able to circulate individually or be combined to form a
unified theme. These exhibits will continue to circulate
after the furniture component finishes its circuit in
December 1976.

An exhibition of prints from the Canadiana Department,
“Steam and Sail”, was loaned to the Thunder Bay
Historical Society Museum for the month of June.

A photographic exhibit of minerals was completed in May
and displayed at a conference of the Canadian Institute of
Mining. Additional bookings are now being made for this
show.

“Eurasian Fabric Crafts”, another photographic exhibit,
was completed in June. This exhibit has been designed
especially for libraries, and its first borrower is the Fort
Frances Library for the month of July 1 975.

The Entomology exhibit was circulated through several
branches of the North York library system last year and
will be displayed at the Port Credit Library during July
and August 1975.

Finally, several ROM department heads have been
meeting with the Chairman of Extension Services to
develop internal procedures and policies. To facilitate our
dealings with communities across the province, we have
also developed a set of guidelines and a questionnaire to
be completed by all applicants for travelling exhibitions.

Extension Services has continued to schedule the two
Museumobiles, “Fossils of Ontario” and “Man in
Ontario”, which participated in Festival Ontario
programmes at Petrolia, Fort Frances, Simcoe, Sault Ste.
Marie, the counties of Grey and Bruce, Flesherton,
Guelph, and Port Elgin. The Museumobiles were also
featured at a number of professional meetings and

Pupils from Ernest Public School demonstrate Indian crafts to members of the F.O.R.O.M.

conferences such as the Archaeological Association of
Canada conference at Thunder Bay in March, the
Geological Association of Canada conference at
Waterloo in May, the Federation of Ontario Naturalists
annual convention in Peterborough in June, and several
gem and mineral shows, including the Detroit
International Gem and Mineral Show in Detroit in
October. This was a unique event, the only time one of
our Museumobiles has been exhibited outside Ontario.

Libraries and local museums became increasingly aware
of the potential of these mobile exhibits over the past
year. Although schools were our major clientele, with
visits to more than 250 schools in the province, there
were also several bookings at senior citizens’ homes,
local fairs, universities and colleges, and even one
correctional centre. The total attendance for the year for
the ‘‘Fossils of Ontario” Museumobile was 31 ,528, and
of these, 1 1 ,91 9 were school children. For ‘‘Man in
Ontario”, the annual attendance was 30,954, including
1 2,919 school children.

Extension Courses and Lecturing

Extension Services has arranged for Royal Ontario
Museum staff to lecture in Ontario communities that have
requested this service through Festival Ontario, and has
also organized extension courses within the ROM,
including one for Ryerson students of Interior Design.
Details of these lectures and courses will be found in the
reports of the various departments concerned and in the
Calendar of Events.

Film Library and Archives

The Sunday afternoon and evening film programmes
continued to enjoy the success of previous years. Much
appreciation is extended to Mr. David McClure, formerly
of the Education Department, who introduced each week
the Sunday Family Films and held audiences enthralled
with his exotic animal specimens. The Museology
students are also to be commended for braving the
rigours of T oronto’s winter evenings to host the Sunday
Evening Film series.

Throughout The Chinese Exhibition, screenings of films
on Chinese civilization were held in the Museum theatre.
Several titles were kindly supplied by the Chinese
Embassy for use in the programme.

During the months of February, March, and April, weekly
lunch-hour screenings of Sir Kenneth Clark’s
"Civilization” series were held as part of the course of
study of the Museology students, and proved popular
with Museum visitors and students alike. We continue to
provide copies of "Civilization” to institutions across the
province, charging a small rental fee to help offset our
costs.

Two short films were produced by Extension Services
over the past year, "Descent of the Dragon” and a film
on spiders— both as part of our development of
supplementary audio-visual programmes for our travelling
exhibits. In addition, we continued to support the
production of films concerning ROM field work, including
"Senneville” by Mr. Webster, "Dan, Mac and Me” with
Dr. Kenyon, and "Godin” on the West Asian Department
dig at Godin Tepe.

Mrs. Burnham produced a slide set and script on
Canadian quilts which has been circulated on request as
far afield as Nova Scotia.

Thanks are due to Imperial Oil for its gift of six prints of
"Village in the Dust”, featuring Dr. Kenyon, which were
used with the archaeology Museumobile "Man in
Ontario”; and to Shell Oil for its gift of six prints of "The
Fossil Story”, used in conjunction with the Museumobile
"Fossils of Ontario”.

Richard Watters, media specialist with Extension
Services, has been providing yeoman service over the
past year, not only projecting all ROM film programmes
and projecting slides for all public lectures, but also
maintaining all ROM audio-visual equipment (except that
in the Planetarium), including that in the Museumobiles
and the Dinosaur Gallery. He is also heavily involved in
film programming, as well as in evaluation, cataloguing,
and acting as a reference for all Museum departments
interested in film.

Recognizing the importance of maintaining contacts with
other organizations, we have participated in regular film
evaluation sessions with staff members of such
institutions as the University of Toronto, the Ontario
Science Centre, and the Toronto Public Libraries, and we
participate in a national video-tape exchange system with
Canadian museums. During the past year several new
titles were added to the collection of 1 6mm films, which
presently consists of approximately 300 prints.

Senior Citizens’ Club

In addition to preparing travelling exhibitions such as the
Mineralogy and Textiles photographic shows, assisting
with the Ryerson course, and providing film programmes
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for Museum groups, Mr. Vanstone operates the senior
citizens’ club, F.O.R.O.M., which has a total membership
of more than 1 00. During the last season the programme,
which ran weekly from October to June, included slide
lectures, films, tours, and demonstrations. As part of the
programme, members are encouraged to make
presentations based on their own studies of the Museum
collections to the rest of the club.

One highlight of the season deserves special mention. As
part of a programme called "Generation Discovery”, 1 5
Grade 6 students from Ernest Avenue Public School in
North York, under the direction of their teacher, Mr.

David McClure, conducted three sessions which included
a variety of activities ranging from baking pioneer foods
to handling live reptiles. Both "generations” enjoyed
each other’s company immensely, and a fine rapport was
developed between the two groups.

We would like to extend our thanks to those members of
the ROM staff and the Touring Committee who so kindly
assisted with the programme.

Staff Notes

Mrs. Soden, Department Secretary, in addition to her
regular duties, last year recorded all Museum attendance
statistics.

Miss Clark, formerly of the Education Department, has
joined our staff and is responsible for all extension
services to schools, including the evaluation and
development of travelling cases and the Museumobile
programme.

Mr. Vanstone served last year on the publications
committee of the Ontario Museum Association.

Mr. Young served last year on the Council of the Ontario
Museum Association, the O.M.A. Committee on Museum
Affairs, the Canadian Museums Association publications
committee, the Festival Ontario Committee, and the
Advisory Council of the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
He also served as animateur at the Canadian Conference
of the Arts. Within the Museum, he was Chairman of the
Extension Committee.

The members of our Dupont Street staff include Mr.

Hillen and Miss Brittain, who, during their many years of
experience as Museum designers, have acquired a
reputation for outstanding work such as “Ste. Marie
Among the Hurons” at Midland and the Mineralogy and
Geology galleries of the ROM. Mr. Clinton Reid, cabinet
maker, and Miss Lesley Morris, secretary, complete the
Dupont Street staff.

Information Services

Denis K. Brown, Public Relations Manager

Extensive staff changes, involvement in The Chinese
Exhibition, and an active publishing programme
combined to make 1 974-75 an inordinately busy year for
the Department.

Publicity and Advertising

In the publicity area, the main emphasis was on
strengthening and expanding contact with all media both
in Toronto and across the province. A special effort was
made to publicize exhibitions and other Museum
activities through the news columns of daily newspapers
and by arranging for Museum staff members to be
interviewed on radio and television programmes. The
result of these efforts has been exceptionally wide and
thorough coverage by the media both of ROM exhibitions
and of the Museum’s research projects.

Efforts were also made to put the advertising budget to
better use by ensuring that our paid publicity, such as
space advertising and posters, reaches as wide a public
as possible.

Apart from the Chinese and other exhibitions,
considerable interest was shown by the media in other

activities undertaken by the curatorial departments. One
project that attracted particular interest was the autopsy
performed by a team of medical scientists on the
mummy “Nakht” donated for the purpose by the
Egyptian Department. A press conference held at the
University of Toronto on the day of the autopsy resulted
in wide national coverage by the media. This in turn
generated further media interest which is still continuing.

Another project which aroused interest and favourable
comment from the media was the Laserium light-and-
sound show staged by the McLaughlin Planetarium in
conjunction with Laser Images Inc. of Van Nuys,
California. Interest in this project, too, continues
unabated.

Other activity included the production of a new ROM
Guide in folder form and a similarly designed guide for
the Planetarium. A total of 13 posters were produced,
dealing with a variety of subjects ranging from special
exhibitions to Sunday family films. These received wide
disribution.

To promote ROM publications, space advertising of our

The Museum as Publisher — the year's output of the publications branch of Information Services.

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books in book-trade journals has been increased, and
“new book” announcements and flyers have been
produced for mailing to book distributors, booksellers,
libraries, universities, museums, art galleries, schools,
and school boards across Canada. These are also mailed
to a number of outlets abroad. Selective mailings are also
done for more specialized works.

In the course of day-to-day routine work, more than 1 59
photograph permission forms were issued, covering 453
black-and-white prints and slides for reproduction in
publications and films.

Publications

The opening of the 1 974-75 fiscal year found us with a
new publications staff and a large backlog of manuscripts
to whose production we had already been committed.

Our first task was to discharge these commitments, and
the publishing programme quickly regained momentum,
with the result that the Department had one of its most
productive years on record.

Among the year's productions were four major
catalogues: the two-volume Canadian Watercolours and
Drawings in the Royal Ontario Museum by Mary Allodi,
Florentine Baroque Bronzes and Other Objects of Art by
Charles Avery and Corey Keeble, Images of Eighteenth-
Century Japan by David Waterhouse, and Roman and
Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum by John
Hayes. Other important books about ROM collections
were Yukata Mino’s Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese
Stonewares in the Royal Ontario Museum and Dorothy
Burnham’s Pieced Quilts of Ontario. For the exhibition of
Dr. Alexander MacDonald’s collection of 1 6th- and 1 7th-
century maps of North America, we produced the
catalogue Canontoriana.

An interesting extension to the scope of ROM publishing
was The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Capt.
Thomas James, Walter Kenyon’s lively modern version
of Thomas James’s journal of his voyage to James Bay
in 1631-32.

Publications in the established academic series
comprised five Life Sciences Contributions, one book in
the Life Sciences Miscellaneous series, three Life
Sciences Occasional Papers, one Archaeology
Monograph, and one Art and Archaeology Miscellaneous
publication.

The remainder of the publications programme consisted
of the four quarterly issues of Rotunda, two new
Publications in Print catalogues, three offprints requested
by other departments, and the Annual Report.

A two-month vacancy in the editorial department in the
spring and early summer had the effect of slowing down
production again towards the end of the fiscal year.
During this period we were forced to confine our

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attention to top-priority projects with immovable
deadlines, but we expect to return to a more normal
operation in the new budget year.

As an extension of the Museum’s publishing programme,
the publications branch of the Department also gives
technical advice and assistance to other departments
requiring print materials for their own internal purposes.
We shall do our best to continue this service, but the
other demands on the publications staff’s time set limits
to the amount that can be undertaken in this direction.

Promotion and Distribution

Production, of course, is only one phase of the publishing
operation. It is a truism among publishers that a book is
not “published” until it has been made known and
available to its potential readers. This phase of the
operation involves promotion and advertising, marketing,
and distribution. These aspects of ROM publishing still
require much attention and aggressive effort, but many
promising advances were made in this direction during
the year, and other steps are now being taken which
should produce significant results in the near future.
Greatly increased mailings of catalogues, brochures, and
review copies have been part of our sales effort during
1 974-75, and the result has been a 30% increase in the
dollar value of sales during the year.

As part of our effort to make ROM books more widely
known, Information Services took a booth at the Montreal
International Book Fair (May 1 5-19), where our books on
display attracted considerable attention both from the
general public and from the trade. Denis Brown and John
Campsie both attended the Fair, and some useful
contacts were made which should enable us to obtain
wider and more systematic distribution of ROM books
both in Canada and abroad.

Staff Notes

During the year 1974-75 Mrs. Christine Jones left and
was replaced as public relations assistant by Miss Jane
Court. Mrs. Karin Loconte, one of the Department’s full¬
time designers, was replaced on a part-time basis by
Miss Lynn Campbell. The other full-time designer, Mr.
John Grant, also resigned, and in his place we welcomed
Mrs. Virginia Morin. Mrs. Diana Sewell joined the
Department as Assistant Editor in July 1 974 and left in
April 1 975 to pursue studies in Europe.

An Acknowledgment

The work of Information Services would be impossible
without the close cooperation of a number of other
Museum departments. For all such cooperation we make
grateful acknowledgment. However, our demands upon
the Photography Department are particularly exacting,
and a special word of thanks must go to Mr. Leigh
Warren and to the members of his department for the
prompt, cheerful, and efficient way in which these
demands have been met.

Library

Judith P. Morgan, Head Librarian

Following our year of changes, the 1 974-75 year has
been one of progress. We have concentrated on
establishing new records and improving some old ones;
in short, on building a firm foundation. We find, as the
fiscal year draws to a close, that we still have a very long
way to go, but improvements and corrections are being
made routinely and we are no longer continuing to add to
our major record problems. At the same time, we are
developing a departmental structure that follows the flow
of the work— Acquisitions to Cataloguing to Public
Service. Our aim is to organize and control the collection,
in order to provide the optimum in service for all our
patrons. Some of the advances made this year are
recorded below.

Acquisitions

This section reflects the greatest organizational change
so far. Exchange receipts, recorded for a year and a half
now, have been integrated with our other acquisitions
records, as have gifts of all types and complimentary
copies. Henceforth, in accord with a new policy
developed through the cooperation of the Museum
Registrar, Miss Dorothea Hecken, and the Library
Committee, all gift books will be included in the ROM
Registrar’s files, and suitable acknowledgment will
always be sent to donors.

Although we maintain the distinction between serials and
monographs in our ordering, recording of receipts is
becoming standard, and to some extent integrated,
through the diligence of our senior acquisitions people,
Mrs. Grace Livingstone and Mrs. Daisy Coburn.

Journals are now all entered in our serials record. Each
issue is checked in as it arrives, irregularities are queried,
and claims are made routinely at regular intervals. We
are in the process of adding to the file the monographic
series, various government publications, and all standing
orders.

The exchange programme is being regularized. A
questionnaire sent out this spring has made it possible for
us to update addresses and to clarify the terms of
existing exchanges. When this stage of the work is
completed, we shall move on to modify the programme
in accordance with the needs of the collection and the
recommendations of the Art and Archaeology and Life
Sciences publications committees.

Prices of books rose dramatically this year. Subscription
cost increases were even greater. This factor, along with
the diversion of a part of our book-buying funds to the
operating budget, because of the crisis conditions in the
Library, has reduced collection development to a
minimum. Most substantial purchases were made from
departmental trust accounts. With the cooperation of the
curatorial departments we have begun to develop an
acquisitions policy, and shall continue in this endeavour
in the coming year.

Mr. John Monteith charges out a book with the help of a summer
student, Miss Cindy Cruise.

Cataloguing

We began this year with an accumulation of cataloguing
copy to be typed, which dated back some 20 months.
Because of the concern of the curatorial staff and their
recommendation that we be allowed to apply some part
of the book budget to our operating expenses, we have
been able to complete the work of typing and filing all
those entries.

Our on-going cataloguing has improved as well. Mrs.
Patricia Houston has been instrumental in setting up new
name and subject authority files. Searching and verifying
procedures, not previously employed, are contributing to
the production of a much more accurate and useful
catalogue.

For the first six months of the year, librarians
concentrated on correcting conflicting entries and other
anomalies in the catalogue. Much catalogue
maintenance, addition of missing cards, correction of
errors in the use of subject headings, and so on has been
accomplished. We still have more to do in order to make
our catalogue a viable tool. However, with the
establishment of proper procedures, we no longer add to
the problems on a day-to-day basis. Later in the year,
cataloguers emphasized production of cataloguing for
recently received books. Nevertheless, we end the year
with a backlog of volumes still uncatalogued.

Our only innovation of the year was the production of a
monthly Accessions List, a photo-reproduction of all

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catalogue cards produced in the month. It was circulated
to departments in order to inform readers of the new
books in the Library.

Public Services

Regrettably, under present conditions we are unable to
expand in this area. Our reference services are far less
extensive than we would wish. However, we try to make
up in courtesy what we lack in substance. We become
more and more dependent upon the good services of our
colleagues in the Canadiana Library, which is
exceptionally efficient.

Circulation procedures have been augmented and now
include an overdue check on recalcitrant students. Miss
Pat Brundrit of the Personnel Office has been very helpful
in informing us of staff departures well in advance. As a
result, we have been saved much work in retrieving
borrowed items.

The Planetarium Library, in spite of its resources and
public service orientation, is still staffed only on
Saturdays. We should very much like to improve its
operation as a resource centre. Planetarium curators are
exceptionally responsive to the public and helpful to us.
They are unusually aware of the information needs of
others.

Our Interloan service, under the able management of
Mrs. Pat Trunks, and the Robarts Library lending service
continue to be heavily used, as we cooperate with other
libraries in satisfying the needs of their readers and our
own.

Children, especially those interested in natural science,
seem to be discovering the ROM Library. We are trying
to encourage them more than we have in the past, and
this year we have been well rewarded for our efforts.
Their response is gratifying. We have some very serious
young patrons who return time and again, often with
challenging questions.

The beginning of the school year involved our librarians
in introductory talks to various university classes taught
by Museum curators. With the help of Miss Patricia
Cipriani, our summer student assistant, the
bibliographical hand-outs prepared by curators for
students have been revised. We hope to do more in this
direction in the future.

This year’s Staff Bibliography, compiled by Miss Sharon
Hick, has undergone some editing and revision of style in
an attempt to make it reflect more clearly the substantial
scholarly work of the Museum.

We look forward, next year, to a period of greater
stabilization and more intensive service orientation.

Museology Department

W. Hewitt Bayley, Chairman

The Museology Department is now in its sixth year, in
conjunction with the School of Graduate Studies,
University of T oronto. The purpose of the joint
programme as approved by the University of Toronto and
the Royal Ontario Museum in 1968 is stated in the
syllabus as follows:

“Most museum appointments require prior experience
and training in museums or art galleries. It is the purpose
of the programme to provide university graduates who
have demonstrated competence in an academic specialty
with training equivalent to and acceptable as museum
experience. The programme is designed for those who in
future will become museum directors, curators,
educators, researchers and administrators; to provide an
integrated knowledge of museology with a practical
experience of techniques within one of the world’s
leading museums.”

The School of Graduate Studies Calendar for 1 974-75
states the admission requirements as follows:

“For admission to a programme leading to the Master’s
of Museology Degree, applicants must meet the
admission requirements of one of the graduate
departments of the School of Graduate Studies in a field
of study appropriate to a museum. The candidate’s
programme will be supervised jointly by the Department
of Museology in the Royal Ontario Museum and the
appropriate graduate department of the School of
Graduate Studies.”

Applications processed for the 1 975-76 enrolment were
in excess of 1 50. One hundred and ten applications were
forwarded to the School of Graduate Studies from which
the Museology Department selected 1 6 to enter the
course. With respect to job opportunities in the museum
field, the Department has been extremely fortunate; of
the 71 students who have attended the course to date,
the distribution of postings is as follows:

Art Galleries & Archives . 9

Museums . 23

Parks & Historic Sites . 9

Science Centres . 3

Advanced Degree Programmes . 4

Writer-Photographer (publishing 1976) . 1

University Library . 1

Thesis Writing . 3

Unemployed . 3

Internships (Class 1 974-75) . 15

Total . 71

The 1 5-month curriculum for 1 974-75 was in accordance
with the approved syllabus as in the past. The course
comprised two cognate courses in the University of
T oronto’s School of Graduate Studies, together with 1 40
two-hour lectures and seminars between September and
June with various assignments in the practical
requirements of museology and museography at the

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Royal Ontario Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario.
Students (1 974) spent eight weeks working in other
institutions to test their acquired knowledge and skills.
The months of October and November, prior to
graduation at the Fall Convocation in December, were
spent pursuing those museological or museographical
disciplines, such as conservation, registration, exhibit
design, audio-visual production, etc., that they felt
required reinforcement as a result of their summer work.

The selection and training of students appear to be
effective, as students are obtaining posts in museums,
galleries, and related activites. A breakdown of positions
achieved shows a perceptible trend of upward mobility.

Director (small museums) . 5

Curator . 5

Assistant Curator . 2

Museum Education . 6

Parks Planner/Interpreter . 7

Conservator . 1

Assistant Conservator . 5

Registrar . 1

Display Coordinator . 4

Historical Writer-Photographer . 1

Museum Adviser . 1

Researcher . 6

Advanced Degree Programme . 4

Museum Secretary . 1

Writing Thesis . 3

Internship Class 1 974-75 . 15

Assistant Librarian (university) . 1

Unemployed . 3

Total . 71

The Museology Department Newsletter is now in Volume
III, No. 2. This publication performs the important function
of linking the graduates together for exchange of
information about their museum work projects and
accomplishments, new positions, and current addresses.
The enthusiasm for and usefulness of the quarterly
Newsletter is demonstrated by the fact that there is a
more than 95% response to the questionnaire for
updating. This very successful project was originated by
Jo Cruise, who organizes and produces the Newsletter
on a quarterly basis, in addition to her many duties as
Assistant to the Chairman and Museology Department
Secretary.

Museology students with David Dudley, Paper Conservator, restoring 1 6th-century European playing cards.

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Photography Department

L.B. Warren, Head Photographer

This year the calls on the Department were many and
varied. We were kept busy with ROM publications; one of
them being Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the
Royal Ontario Museum , which contains almost 500
photographs, 30 of them in colour.

The Department was primed and ready for the opening of
The Chinese Exhibition in August, which was to involve
us in the taking of hundreds of publicity photographs,
many of which had to be processed hurriedly for the
newspapers. As well as having a busy schedule during
the day, we were often called upon to take photographs
for various events in the evening.

That same week, Dr. Millet of the Egyptian Department
requested a photographer for the autopsy of one of the
ROM mummies, to be held at the Medical Sciences
Complex at the University of Toronto. Hundreds of
photographs were taken, both in black and white and in
colour. Needless to say, it was one of the busiest weeks
ever in our Department.

All in all, our year was a successful one. The Department
was able to cope with regular work as well as with these
big events, thanks to the skills and teamwork of our
efficient staff.

We were sorry to lose our cheerful secretary of seven
years, Miss Margaret Cooke, in December. However, we
were fortunate in hiring Mrs. Charlene Macdonald, a
competent and pleasant replacement.

Programme Secretary

Helen M. Downie

In spite of the fact that The Chinese Exhibition absorbed
most of the energies of this office during the first six
months of the 1 974-75 year, the programme did not, in
fact, come to a halt.

Major Exhibitions

January saw the opening of "Florentine Baroque Bronzes
and Other Objects of Art”. This beautiful display,
prepared by the European Department from a private
collection with additional pieces from our own collection,
was opened by Mr. G.D. Wotherspoon, our new
Chairman of the Board.

This was followed by "Images of 18th-Century Japan” —
exquisite Japanese woodblock prints from the collection
donated to the ROM by its first Chairman, Sir Edmund
Walker. The beauty and delicacy of the prints were much
admired at a Members’ Opening in April.

From the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria came a stunning
exhibit of 30 centuries of Northwest Coast Indian stone
sculpture. Funded by the Canada Council and National
Museums of Canada, “Images: Stone B.C.” gave us
another view of the richness and strength of the heritage
of our native peoples. A very informative catalogue by
Wilson Duff accompanied the exhibition.

Third-Floor Rotunda

Styled as a Chinese garden during The Chinese
Exhibition, this area became a meeting place for visitors
touring our own Chinese collections— a busy traffic stop!

One special exhibition, "Photo Poetry” by Edward Zuber,
featured delightful photos of the Canadian landscape and
was complemented by an audio poetry presentation by
Ron Young.

Peter Kaellgren of the European Department arranged an
exhibit of articles that would have been found in an
average English home during Oueen Victoria’s reign.
Entitled " Victoriana 1 840-1 875”, it featured glass,
ceramics, papier mache, and furniture.

Another ROM show was inspired by Dr. Ross James,
Department of Ornithology. Entitled "Nest Parasitism in
Birds”, it described a fascinating aspect of nature’s
adaptation.

Lower Rotunda

Through July we displayed photographs of the California
Condor, the largest flying bird in North America, an
endangered species that has rarely been recorded by
photographers. This "lesson in survival” was circulated
by the Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove,
California.

During The Chinese Exhibition a selection of early 20th-
century photographs from the Far Eastern Department’s
scrapbooks was displayed, ranging from faces of
beggars to those of high government officials.

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From January to June there were four small exhibitions.
The first of these was "Soviet Space Photos”, organized
by the McLaughlin Planetarium. This was followed by
"Saturday Morning Club Children’s Art.”

The highlight, I think, was a lovely exhibit of Allycia
Uccello’s watercolours, "Beneath the Seas”, sponsored
by the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology. Miss
Uccello combined fact and fantasy to present her work.

The fourth exhibit, "New Zealand: A Nation’s History in
Stamps”, gave us a vivid picture of New Zealand’s
development from the early 1 800s to the present day.

In the Stamp Corner, Mr. Patrick, Honorary Curator of
Philately, arranged six exhibitions with his usual
enthusiasm and competence. We regret that he will no
longer be able to continue, and we take this opportunity
to thank him for his cooperation during so many years
and for the delight he has given to so many. It is with
pleasure that we look forward to working with his
successor, Dr. Fred G. Stulberg.

Galleries

Both Canadiana and Textiles continued their policies of
changing exhibits in their own galleries. “Canadian
Watercolours and Drawings”, arranged to mark the
publication of Mary Allodi’s book of the same name, was
most successful. Miss Allodi is a Curatorial Assistant with
Canadiana. Textiles prepared a special exhibit to
complement The Chinese Exhibition, “Folk Arts of Old
and New China”, comprising textiles, costumes, and
craft collections.

The Far Eastern Galleries also put on a fascinating exhibit
to complement The Chinese Exhibition. “In the Eye of the
Beholder” was an evocative display of articles of
personal adornment in China up to the 1 9th century. The
Prehistory Exhibition Gallery, which opened in February
1 975, displayed the results of an autopsy conducted on a
3,200-year-old mummy from the ROM’s collection. The
autopsy was performed by the University of Toronto’s
medical faculty assisted by the ROM.

McLaughlin Planetarium

The Planetarium exhibited the work of David Reid: a
stunning piece of silver work decorated with semi¬
precious stones to form the galaxy; this converted into a
necklace.

Lectures and Concerts

The fall series of lectures entitled “Time”, organized by
Dr. D.H. Collins, Curator of the Department of
Invertebrate Palaeontology, proved a most interesting
subject, with eight excellent guest speakers.

Two series of paid lectures were again organized by the
Bishop White Fund to complement The Chinese
Exhibition.

At the opening of “Images of 18th-Century Japan", the Sansei Dancers
from the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre performed Japanese
classical dance in traditional dress.

There were many other special and spot lectures by
visiting scholars, as well as open meetings of the
Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for
the Study of Egyptian Antiquities.

Special Events

Among the many special events that took place during
the year, several were particularly notable, including the
publication of Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in
the ROM by Mary Allodi, and The Book of Canadian
Antiques edited by Donald Blake Webster, both of
Canadiana. Receptions were held for these events.
Another occasion was the launching of Bishop in Honan
by Prof. L.C. Walmsley, the story of Bishop W.C. White,
to whom we owe much of our present collection of Far
Eastern archaeological treasures. Again this year the
Members’ Committee organized ROMart ’75, in which art
students from Toronto and its environs displayed their
work for sale and judging. Raymond Moriyama, R. York
Wilson, and Kay Kritzwiser were on hand to judge the
work.

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Members’ Committee

Joan Thompson, Chairman

It has been the purpose of the Members’ Committee
since its inception 1 8 years ago to assist the staff of the
Museum in whatever ways they request, and to
encourage public interest in the Museum. Our aims were
brought into sharp focus both during the many months of
preparation for The Chinese Exhibition and in the weeks
that the crowds thronged to see it on display in the
Museum. Thirteen thousand visitors attended our
“Introduction to China” tours which took place in the Far
Eastern galleries. The result was a financial contribution
of $1 3,462 to the Museum. Our satisfaction was not
measured by dollars alone. We were delighted to know
that the tours helped visitors not only to understand the
exhibition, but also to enjoy the Museum’s own Chinese
collection. The tours were the product of a united effort
by the staff of the Far Eastern Department, who worked
with our liaison, Mrs. John Fitzpatrick; the tourers; and
fellow members of the Committee who staffed the ticket
selling desks five days a week from 1 0 a. m. to 8 p.m. It
was a collaboration of staff and volunteers united in a
common endeavour.

A further contribution to the success of The Chinese
Exhibition came from the Museum volunteers who
worked at the Information Desk in the main Rotunda.
While these dedicated men and women staff this
important post seven days a week throughout the year,
their role was a particularly vital one when visitors by the
thousands came to the Museum daily. In a large museum
such as ours, situated in a metropolitan city, the
volunteer at the information desk provided a warm and
friendly contact with the visitor. The “meeters and
greeters” provided a similar service for school children.
Again, this is a continuing programme, but during the
exhibition, the work load was multiplied many times. The
volunteers made order out of potential chaos— a difficult
and taxing job well done.

Despite the fact that The Chinese Exhibition absorbed a
great deal of our thought and time, three bus trips were
organized for ROM members. The first, in October, was a
repetition of Dr. Tovell’s popular geology tour along the
Niagara Escarpment. In March, a group visited the
Carborundum Museum of Ceramics in Niagara Falls, New
York. In May, Dr. Tovell again put on his tour guide’s hat
and, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Toronto and
Region Conservation Authority, conducted two buses of
Museum members in an exploration of the waterfront.

In May ROMart, the student art show under the
chairmanship of Mrs. G.J. Shully, was a popular event.

For two days the front of the Museum was a lively and
colourful scene, as students displayed their artistic wares
for serious shopper and browser alike. Mrs. R.D. Hill, the
project chairman, not only coordinated the above-
mentioned projects but also began work on a Museum
visitors’ guide, which we hope will be published soon.

Special projects are always of great interest and worthy
of mention, but of equal importance was the daily
programme carried out by the Members' Committee.

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Tours were given five days a week at 1 2.1 5 and 2 p.m.

In addition, each Wednesday a tour was given at
Canadiana, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays a
Planetarium tour was offered at 2 p.m. prior to the show
in the Star Theatre— a total of 1 3 free gallery tours each
week. The Committee also provided a service for special
groups. Since January 1 a charge of $1 .00 per person
has been levied, which will be used to augment the
Members’ Committee trust fund. This is a purchase fund,
which this year provided a screen for the theatre.

Tours were also provided of special shows in Exhibition
Hall, including "Canadian Indian Art, 1974”, “Florentine
Baroque Bronzes”, and “Images of 1 8th-Century Japan”.
Thirty-four active touring members, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. E.W. Taylor, were responsible for
this programme, which has guided 22,082 visitors
through the Museum during the last year.

Many of our members worked with the collections behind
the scenes. There are Members’ Committee volunteers in
the Far Eastern, Ornithology, Greek and Roman,
Vertebrate Palaeontology, Invertebrate Palaeontology,
Mineralogy, Ethnology, Canadiana, Egyptian, and West
Asian departments. This is a particularly rewarding
aspect of our work and, we trust, is equally necessary to
the departments. The Study Group, arranged by Mrs.
Monty Levitt, had as its theme the social history of Upper
Canada and was enjoyed by 31 of our members. For
new members of the Museum a special reception was
held in April. It was an evening of films, tours, and
refreshments, to familiarize the new members with the
Museum. All of these last opportunities for service were
under the direction of the Placement Chairman, Mrs. D.P.
Roberton.

We are also particularly privileged to serve on the Board
of T rustees. Our representative on the Board is Mrs.

W.O. Randall, and the Chairman of our Committee
attends its meetings as an observer.

We are grateful to the Museum for having made available
to us, in this year of “no space”, a small office. It has
been used daily and with appreciation, and our operation
has been more efficient as a result.

The foregoing report is of necessity but a brief resume,
and cannot include all of the many and varied Museum
activities carried out by the Members’ Committee. It
does, however, record our grateful thanks to the
Members of the Board of T rustees and to the staff of the
Museum for their support and cooperation in all of our
projects. To this I should like to add my own personal
thanks for the many kindnesses shown to me during the
past year. It has been an honour to serve as Chairman of
the Members’ Committee, and one for which I am deeply
grateful.

Auditors’ Report

To the Trustees of the Royal Ontario Museum:

We have examined the balance sheet of the Royal
Ontario Museum as at June 30, 1975 and the statement
of financial operations for the year then ended. Our
examination included a general review of the account¬
ing procedures and such tests of accounting records
and other supporting evidence as we considered
necessary in the circumstances, except as noted in
the following paragraph.

Bequests, grants and donations to trust accounts, by
their nature, are not susceptible of complete audit
verification. Accordingly our verification of receipts
from these sources was limited to a comparison of
recorded receipts with bank deposits.

In our opinion, except for the effect of any adjustments
which might have been required had we been able to
completely verify bequests, grants and donations,
the accompanying financial statements present fairly
the financial position of the Museum as at June 30,

1975 and the results of its operations for the year then
ended, in accordance with accounting principles
generally accepted for non-profit organizations applied
on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year.

Toronto, Canada,

September 23, 1 975.

O.

Clarkson, Gordon & Co.
Chartered Accountants

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The Royal Ontario Museum

(Incorporated by Special Act of the Ontario Legislature as

a corporation without share capital) June 30, 1975

Balance Sheet (with comparative figures as at June 30, 1 974)

1975

1974

Assets

Operating:

Short-term investments

$ 345,529

$ 241,101

Excavation, field work and travel advances

67,327

50,764

Accounts receivable

97,938

58,292

Due from Chinese Exhibition Council
of the Royal Ontario Museum

102,688

Inventories at the lower of cost and
realizable value

135,685

107,289

Fixed at nominal value —

Land and buildings

1

1

Contents

1

1

646,481

560,136

Trust:

Short-term investments

2,557,971

1 ,513,399

Marketable securities at cost —

(quoted market value — $1 ,556,000 ; 1 974 — $1 ,638,000)

1 ,638,007

1,798,649

Accrued interest

27,747

43,011

4,223,725

3,355,059

$4,870,206

$3,915,195

Liabilities and Trust Funds

Operating:

Bank indebtedness

$ 3,592

$ 10,769

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

311,000

219,952

General reserve

331 ,889

329,415

646,481

560,136

Trust funds

4,223,725

3,355,059

$4,870,206

$3,915,195

On behalf of the Board :

(See accompanying note)

Trustee: W. R. S. Seyffert

Note to Financial Statements

Province of Ontario Financing

The Royal Ontario Museum has embarked upon a
program of major renovations to, and expansion of,
its facilities. The Museum has received amounts
totalling $171 ,000 to June 30, 1 975 from the Ontario
Universities Capital Aid Corporation, and has issued
debentures payable in such amount to that corporation.

Payments of debenture principal and interest are being
made by the Ministry of Culture and Recreation of the
Province of Ontario on behalf of the Museum ;
accordingly, the $171 ,000 has not been recorded as a
liability in the accounts.

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The Royal Ontario Museum
Statement of Financial
Operations

Year Ended June 30, 1975

(with comparative figures for the year ended June 30, 1 974)

1975

1974

Operating

Trust

Total

Total

Receipts:

Operating:

Province of Ontario grants

$5,474,046

$5,474,046

$4,840,000

Board of Education

49,431

49,431

53,399

Admission fees

191 ,270

191 ,270

217,102

Museology fees and grants

66,691

66,691

43,879

Service departments (net)

53,349

53,349

67,674

Other

11,288

11.288

6,619

Trust:

Bequests, grants and donations

$ 593,719

593,719

506,115

Investment income

343,943

343,943

238,781

Membership fees

88,202

88,202

113,317

Admission fees

Exhibition and project endowment

38,755
601 ,652

38,755
601 ,652

53,687

Other

189,807

189,807

169,919

Total receipts

5,846,075

1 ,856,078

7,702,153

6,310,492

Disbursements:

Artifacts and specimens

Building expansion

50,000

100,511
161 ,529

150,511
161 ,529

179,569

Building maintenance

325,174

7,539

332,713

316,134

Equipment

119,401

22,758

142,159

174,311

Supplies

219,224

23,000

242,224

200,784

Excavations

126,066

102,391

228,457

183,902

Gallery renovations

3,439

144,034

147,473

113,297

Services

205,670

14,869

220,539

160,058

Travel, expeditions

119,598

29,844

149,442

89,287

Exhibitions (net)

36,044

15,206

51 ,250

73,437

Books and periodicals

56,905

3,045

59,950

61,621

Publications (net)

61 ,816

169,694

231 ,510

76,671

Advertising and publicity

64,027

12,188

76,215

74,659

Other

68,593

28,512

97,105

218,532

Salaries and wages

4,387,644

152,292

4,539,936

3,934,151

Total disbursements

5,843,601

987,412

6,831 ,013

5,856,413

Excess of receipts

over disbursements for the year

2,474

868,666

871 ,140

454,079

Balance of general reserve

and trust funds, beginning of year

329,415

3,355,059

3,684,474

3,230,395

Balance of general reserve

and trust funds, end of year

$ 331,889

$4,223,725

$4,555,614

$3,684,474

(See accompanying note)

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Report on the Exhibition of Archaeological
Finds of The People’s Republic of China

Walter M. Tovell
Maxwell Henderson

On March 1 5, 1 974, the Canadian Government signed a
cultural agreement in Peking with the People’s Republic
of China. The agreement assured that the exhibition of
recent archaeological finds of the People’s Republic of
China would be shown for the first time in North America
in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.

However, prior to the March 1 5 signing of the agreement,
the Museum had been busy planning for what was to
become known as The Chinese Exhibition. Two planning
groups were established. The first was set up by the
ROM Board of Trustees and was known as the CEC-
ROM (The Chinese Exhibition Council of the Royal
Ontario Museum). This committee had full responsibility
for the exhibition and was chaired by Mr. Noah Torno.

The second group was a Museum staff planning
committee for the exhibition under the chairmanship of
Mrs. Barbara Stephen. Mr. Guy Pearse, who had
managed The Chinese Exhibition in London, England,
was appointed Exhibition Manager. Mrs. Helen Downie
was appointed Assistant Exhibition Manager and after the
successful launching took over full responsibility for the
operation of the exhibition. The staff committee was
responsible for the overall planning, including design,
catalogue production, transportation, security, and shops.

While the exhibition itself was unquestionably the centre
of attraction, subsidiary displays accentuated the
permanent galleries and other exhibition areas of the
Museum. The upper and lower Rotundas, in particular,
had supporting exhibitions. The lower Rotunda exhibition
showed photographs of the “Faces of Old China’’, while
the Rotunda on the third floor displayed objects of natural
history.

A special project by the Touring Committee of the
Members’ Committee composed a script called
“Introduction to China”, which introduced the exhibition
and its cultural background to the public through a tour of
the ROM’s Chinese collections. This programme was
offered both to the general public at specific times and to
visiting groups by arrangement. The dedication of the
Touring Committee was matched by essential help given
by other members and volunteers.

The Bishop White Committee organized a series of
lectures to accompany the exhibition.

The Exhibition was formally opened on August 7, 1974,
by Madame Jules Leger, wife of the Governor General of
Canada. The Honourable Dr. Pauline McGibbon,
Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Ontario, was in
attendance. The guests numbered 1 ,200 in addition to
the Vice-regal party, the Ambassador of the People’s
Republic of China, His Excellency Chang Wen-chin, and
Madame Chang, and an official delegation from the
People’s Republic of China led by Liu Yang-chiao of the
State Bureau for Cultural Relics.

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A special reception was held for the members of the
Parliament of Canada and of the Legislature of the
Province of Ontario, and the mayors, controllers, and
members of the Municipal Councils that form
Metropolitan Toronto.

The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People’s
Republic of China was an outstanding success for the
Royal Ontario Museum. This success cannot be
measured only by the financial gain.1 The exhibition
attracted 435,000 people, many of whom knew little of
the Museum prior to the exhibition. But by its very
success it has raised some problems requiring careful
analysis. While building facilities remain as congested
and over-extended as at present, it is clearly undesirable
to hold events of this scale in any but the most
exceptional circumstances; at the same time the
attendance and the public’s enjoyment of the exhibition
were so notable that we must make plans to be able to
hold other such events from time to time. At a moment
when space requirements for the coming generation are
receiving intensive consideration, The Chinese Exhibition
provided food for thought.

It is impossible in a report of this nature to express
properly the gratitude due to all those primarily
responsible for the exhibition or to the permanent and
part-time staff who contributed so noticeably to the
mounting of the exhibition. The sacrifices made by those
departments not directly involved with the event are also
recognized and acknowledged with appreciation.

^ee the audited statements in Appendix 1 to this report.
Since the preparation of these statements, the $1 50,000
provided by the Province of Ontario has been
transferred to the Museum Expansion Fund. The
balance of $451 ,652 has been invested in a special
Exhibition and Project Endowment Fund.

The Chinese Exhibition —
Appendix 1
Auditors’ Report

To the Members of The Chinese Exhibition
Council of the Royal Ontario Museum:

We have examined the balance sheet of The Chinese
Exhibition Council of The Royal Ontario Museum as at
April 30, 1 975 and the statement of financial operations
for the period from January 1 8, 1 974 to April 30, 1 975.

Our examination included a general review of the
accounting procedures and such tests of accounting
records and other supporting evidence as we considered
necessary in the circumstances.

Grants and donations, by their nature, are not susceptible
of complete audit verification. Accordingly our
verification of receipts from these sources was limited to
a comparison of recorded receipts with bank deposits.

In our opinion, except for the effect of any adjustments
which might have been required had we been able to
completely verify grants and donations, the
accompanying financial statements present fairly the
financial position of The Chinese Exhibition Council of
The Royal Ontario Museum as at April 30, 1 975, and the
results of its operations for the period from January 1 8,

1 974 to April 30, 1 975, in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted for non-profit organizations
applied on a consistent basis.

Toronto, Canada,

May 13, 1975.

t r/^— " ' — -*^£3

Clarkson, Gordon & Co.
Chartered Accountants

The Chinese Exhibition Council of the Royal Ontario Museum

(Incorporated by Letters Patent in the Province of
Ontario as a corporation without share capital)

Balance Sheet_ April 30, 1975

Assets

Due from The Royal Ontario Museum (note 3) $601 ,652

Surplus

Surplus from The Chinese Exhibition (note 3) $601 ,652

On behalf of the Members:

Noah Torno, Chairman

yt nTW cftsy

Maxwell Henderson, Member
(See accompanying notes)

Notes to the Financial Statements

1. Incorporation

The corporation was incorporated by Letters Patent
under the laws of Ontario as a corporation without share
capital on January 1 8, 1 974. The purpose of the
corporation was to work in conjunction with The Royal
Ontario Museum, officials of The Government of Ontario,
officials of The Government of Canada and others for
the exhibition in Canada of Archaeological Finds of the
People's Republic of China to be made available by or
through the Government of the People's Republic of
China.

2. The Chinese Exhibition Agreement

The exhibition was held during the period from August 7,

1 974 to November 1 6, 1 974 through an agreement dated
April 1 6, 1 974 between The Chinese Exhibition Council
of The Royal Ontario Museum and The Chinese
Committee for the Organization of Exhibitions of
Archaeological Finds whereby the Chinese side paid the
expenses of assembling the exhibits and packing them in
China while the Canadian side paid all expenses
connected with the mounting of the exhibition in Canada
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including expenses (while in Canada) of two officials and
an interpreter to escort the exhibition. Transportation
costs of the exhibits from Stockholm to Toronto were
paid by the Canadian side and all proceeds from the
exhibition went to the Canadian side.

3. Surplus from The Chinese Exhibition

As provided for in the Letters Patent of the corporation
dated January 1 8, 1 974, upon dissolution of the
corporation and after payment of all debts and liabilities,
its remaining property shall be distributed or disposed of
to The Royal Ontario Museum. The Royal Ontario
Museum will absorb any expenses incurred by the
corporation subsequent to April 30, 1975.

4. Directors’ Remuneration

The directors of the corporation served without
remuneration other than reimbursement for reasonable
expenses incurred by them in the performance of their
duties, as provided for in the Letters Patent dated
January 18, 1974.

The Chinese Exhibition Council of the Royal Ontario Museum
Statement of Financial

Operations

January 18, 1974 to April 30, 1975

Receipts:

From operations:

Admissions

Catalogue sales

Shop sales

Gallery tours

Interest income (net)

Scrap sales

Sundry

$ 897,828
217,195
304,602
13,893
22,598
8,231
5,716

1,470,063

From grants and donations:

Province of Ontario

Government of Canada

Donations

150,000

151,610

2,366

303,976

Total receipts

1,774,039

Disbursements:

Transportation of exhibits

Insurance

Design and construction

Catalogue purchases

Shop purchases

Advertising and publicity

Security

Salaries and employee benefits

Travel and entertainment

Office expenses

Legal and audit

Chinese working group expenses

Sundry

56,835

137,800

234,022

131,947

161,133

152,669

68,380

144,766

39,619

18,742

6,124

15,714

4,636

Total disbursements

1,172,387

Excess of receipts over disbursements being
surplus from The Chinese Exhibition

$ 601,652

(See accompanying notes)

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The Chinese Exhibition-
Appendix 2

The Chinese Exhibition Council of the
Royal Ontario Museum

Noah Torno, M.B.E., Chairman

John Evans, M.D., D.Phil. (Oxon), LL.D., F.R.C.P.(Can),
F.A.C.P.

President, University of Toronto

Maxwell Henderson, O.B.E., LL.D., F.C.A.

Director (Administration) and Controller, Royal Ontario
Museum

J. Gordon Parr, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., F.A.S.M.,

F.R.S.A.

Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities, Province of
Ontario

A.E. Ritchie, B.A., B. A. (Oxon), LL.D.

Undersecretary of State for External Affairs

Chester Ronning, B.Sc. (Educ.), M.A., LL.D.
formerly Canadian Ambassador to Norway and Iceland;
High Commissioner to India; Charge d Affaires, Canadian
Embassy, Peking

Barbara Stephen, M.A.

Associate Curator, Far Eastern Department, Royal
Ontario Museum; Associate Professor, Department of
East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

The Honourable K.R. Thomson, M.A. (Cantab)

Chairman and President, Thomson Newspapers, Ltd.

Walter M. Tovell, B.A., M.S., Ph.D.

Director, Royal Ontario Museum

K. A. R. Torrance, Treasurer
Controller, Royal Ontario Museum

F.J. Dunbar, Secretary

Secretary to the Board, Royal Ontario Museum

Guy Pearse, Exhibition Manager (July 3 -August 21,
1974)

Helen Downie, Assistant Exhibition Manager (to August
21, 1974), Exhibition Manager (August 22 - November
16, 1974)

Programme Secretary, Royal Ontario Museum

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Museum Attendance

July 1, 1974— June 30, 1975

School Attendance

July 1, 1974— June 30, 1975

Main Building

Paid Attendance

Museum Functions (openings)

Evening 5:00 — 9:00 p.m.

Non-paid attendance

154,921

2,588

95,832

268,403

Metro

Conducted classes

Unconducted classes

Total

31 ,527
20,041

51,568

School Classes

Other Groups (inc. rentals)

129,044

7,213

Provincial

Conducted classes

46,224

Total Main Building

658,001

Unconducted classes

31 ,252

Planetarium

Total

77,476

Public Shows

Shows for School Classes

Other Groups (& Star Theatre)

Visitors to Display & Lect. Rm. ( + Laserium)

130,144

64,414

1 ,395
19,532

Community Colleges

Conducted classes

Unconducted classes

Total

554

2,926

3,480

Total Planetarium

215,485

Universities

Conducted classes

Unconducted classes

Total

Canadiana

Visitors

School Classes

Miscellaneous

26,929

4,063

3,223

164

337

501

Total Canadiana

34,215

Miscellaneous

Total

9,006

The Chinese Exhibition

Total

435,000

Canadiana

Conducted classes

Unconducted classes

1 ,637
2,556

Grand Total

1,342,701

Comparative Attendance Total

Total

4,193

1967-68 1968-69 1969-70

836,257 1,369,034 1,330,804

1970-71

1 ,266,648

The Chinese Exhibition

Total

14,201

1971-72 1972-73 1973-74

1,372,929 1,164,243 1,105,743

1974-75

1,342,701

Grand Total

160,425

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A Bibliography of ROM Staff
Publications

July 1, 1974 — June 30, 1975

Allodi, M.

Canadian Watercolours and Drawings in the Royal
Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum,
1974. 2 vols. Unpaged.

—"Our Past in Pictures.” Rotunda, v. 7, no. 4, 1974, pp.
30-35.

—"Prints and Early Illustrations.” In The Book of
Canadian Antiques, edited by D.B. Webster, pp. 296-
SI 2. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.

Bacso, J.

"The Davisville Pottery.” York Pioneer, 1975, pp. 32-
38.

Baker, A.J.

"Morphological Variation, Hybridization and
Systematics of New Zealand Oystercatchers
(Charadriiformes: Haematopodidae).” Journal of
Zoology, v. 175, pt. 3, 1975, pp. 357-390.

— "Prey-specific Feeding Methods of New Zealand
Oystercatchers.” Notornis, v. 21, pt. 3, 1974, pp. 219-
233.

Ball, I.R.

"Contributions to a Revision of the Marine T riclads of
North America: the Monotypic Genera Nexilis, Nesion,
and Foviella (Turbellaria: Tricladida).” Canadian
Journal of Zoology, v. 53, no. 4, 1975, pp. 395-407.
—"Green Days in Forests and Blue Days at Sea.”

Rotunda, v. 7, no. 4, 1974, pp. 4-13.

—“A New Genus and Species of Freshwater Planarian
from Australia (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria).” Journal
of Zoology, v. 1 74, pt. 2, 1 974, pp. 1 49-1 58.

—A New Genus of Freshwater Tricladfrom Tasmania,
with Reviews of the Related Genera Cura and Neppia
(Turbellaria, Tricladida). Life Sciences Contribution no.
99. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1974. 48 p.

Barr, D.

“In Search of the Minute.” Rotunda, v. 8, no. 1 , 1 975,
pp. 4-1 1 .

—"That Pesky, Paper-Making Wasp.” Reader's Digest,
v. 105, no. 628, 1974, pp. 59-63.

Black, M.B.

"Cultural Ecology in the Subarctic” (by E.S. Rogers
and M.B. Black). Reviews in Anthropology, v. 1 , no. 3,
1974, pp. 343-348.

Buckley, P.

"Along Came a Spider.” Ontario Naturalist, v. 1 4, no.

3, 1974, pp. 18-25.

Buerschaper, P.

“Catch a Midnight Snack.” The Young Naturalist, v.

17, no. 4, 1975, pp. 14-15.

Burnham, D.K.

Pieced Quilts of Ontario. Toronto: Royal Ontario
Museum, 1 975. 64 p.

Burnham, H.B., and Burnham, D.K.

“Handweaving and Textiles.” In The Book of Canadian
Antiques, edited by D.B. Webster, pp. 282-295.
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.

72

Churcher, C.S.

"Additional Evidence of Pleistocene Ungulates from
the Bow River Gravels at Cochrane, Alberta.”

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 1 2, no. 1 , 1 975,
pp. 68-76.

— “Sivatherium maurusium (Pomel) from the Swartkrans
Australopithecine Site, Transvaal (Mammalia:
Giraffidae) .” Annals of the Transvaal Museum, v. 29,
no. 6, 1974, pp. 65-70.

Clarke, T.R.

"Search for Circular Polarization in Compact Radio
Sources at a Wavelength of 2.2 cm.” (by E.R.

Seaquist, P.C. Gregory, and T.R. Clarke). Astronomical
Journal, v. 79, no. 9, 1974, pp. 918-922.

Crossman, E. J.

"Musky! ROM Research on an Important Sport Fish.”
Rotunda, v. 8, no. 1 , 1 975, pp. 36-40.

—Poissons d’eau douce du Canada (by W.B. Scott and
E.J. Crossman). Bulletin 1 84. Ottawa: Ministere de
I’Environment, Service des peches et des sciences de
la mer, 1974. 1026 p.

—"Species and Geographic Variability of Surface Pits in
the Esocidae” (by M.J. Merrilees and E.J. Crossman).
Copeia, no. 4, 1974, pp. 893-909.

— Trout Ponds and Farm Ponds; A List of References.
Information Leaflet. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum,
Dept, of Ichthyology and Herpetology, 1 974. 1 4 p.

Day, K.C.

“Chan Chan: A Study of Precolumbian Urbanism and
the Management of Land and Water Resources in
Peru” (by R.W. Keatinge and K.C. Day). Archaeology,
v. 27, no. 4, 1974, pp. 228-235.

Dewdney, S.

The Sacred Scrolls of the Southern Ojibway. Toronto:
Published for the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary,
Alberta, by University of Toronto Press, 1975. 199 p.

Dohrenwend, D.

"Jade: the Art.” Canadian Antiques Collector, v. 9, no.
4, 1974, pp. 21-26.

—"Paradise T ube.” Rotunda, v. 7, no. 3, 1 974, pp. 1 6-
17.

Emery, A.R., and Burgess, W.E.

“A New Species of Damselfish (Eupomacentrus) from
the Western Atlantic with a Key to Known Species of
the Area.” Copeia, no. 4, 1974, pp. 879-886.

Fenton, M.B.

"Acuity of Echolocation in Collocalia hirundinacea
(Aves: Apodicae), with Comments on the Distributions
of Echolocating Swiftlets and Molossid Bats.”
Biotropica, v. 7, no. 1 , 1 975, pp. 1 -7.

—“Echoes: Why Bats Can Live in Caves.” Canadian
Geographical Journal, v. 89, no. 4, 1974, pp. 16-23.

—“The Feeding Ecology of Insectivorous Bats.” Bios , v.

45, no. 1, 1974, pp. 3-14.

Fenton, M.B., and Roeder, K.D.

“The Microtymbals of Some Arctiidae.” Journal of the
Lepidopterists' Society, v. 28, no. 3, 1 974, pp. 205-
211.

Fritz, M.A.

Redescription of Type Specimens of the Bryozoan
Heterotrypa from Upper Ordovician Rocks of the Credit
River Valley, Ontario, Canada. Life Sciences
Contribution no. 1 01 . Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum,
1975. 30 p.

Gad, L., and Cruise, J.E.

"Pokeweed in Ontario.” Ontario Naturalist, v. 14, no. 3,
1974, pp. 13-16.

Gervers, V.

“A Dobok Sarospatakon: Ket Siremlek Tanulsagai”
(The Dobo Family at Sarospatak: Two Gravestones).
Epites-Epiteszettudomany, v. 3-4, 1 974, pp. 41 3-424.
—“Methods of Traditional Felt-making in Anatolia and
Iran ” Bulletin de liaison du Centre International
d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, no. 38, 1 973, pp. 1 52-
163.

—“A Nemezkeszites Nehany Kerdese Tbrokorszagban
es Iranban” (Some Problems of Felt-making in Turkey
and Iran). In Paraszti Tarsadalom es Muveltseg a 18-20
Szazadban, v.2: Mezovarosok, edited by T. Hofer, E.
Kisban, and G. Kaposvari, pp. 141-160. Budapest:
Magyar Neprajzi Tarsasag es Damjanich Janos
Muzeum, 1974.

Gervers, V., and Gervers, M.

“Felt-making Craftsmen of the Anatolian and Iranian
Plateaux.” Textile Museum Journal, v. 4, no. 1 , 1974,
pp. 14-29.

Golombek, L.V.

“Urban Patterns in Pre-Safavid Isfahan.” Iranian
Studies, v. 7, 1 974, pp. 1 8-44.

Hansell, R.I.C.

“Fuzzy Aspects of the Parsimony Problem in
Evolution” (by E. Marchi and R.I.C. Hansell).
Mathematical Biosciences, v. 23, no. 3-4, 1975, pp.
305-327.

—“The Genus Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acarina:
Phytoseiidae) in Canada and Alaska” (by D.A. Chant,
R.I.C. Hansell, and E. Yoshida). Canadian Journal of
Zoology, v. 52, no. 1 0, 1 974, pp. 1 265-1 291 .

Hansell, R.I.C., and Marchi, E.

“Aspects of Evolutionary Theory and Theory of
Game.” In Mathematical Problems in Biology, edited
by S. Levin, pp. 66-72. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1974.
Hayes, J.W.

Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario
Museum; a Catalogue. Toronto: Royal Ontario
Museum, 1975. 229 p.

— [Review of] Die Trierer Kaiserthermen. Die
spatromische und fruhmittelalterliche Keramik, by L.
Hussong and H. Cuppers. Gnomon, Bd. 47, Hft. 2,

1975, pp. 222-224.

— [Review of] Samos, Band VI : I. Samische Gefasse des
6. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.: Landschaftsstile
Ostgriechischer Gefasse, by E. Walter-Karydi.

American Journal of Archaeology, v. 78, no. 4, 1974,
pp. 439-440.

Hickl-Szabo, H.

“Baroque Bronze Sculpture.” Canadian Antiques
Collector, v. 9, no. 5, 1974, pp. 23-26.

Holmes, J.

“Glass and the Glass Industry.” In The Book of
Canadian Antiques, edited by D.B. Webster, pp. 268-
281 . Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1 974.

— “T oys and Games.” In The Book of Canadian
Antiques, edited by D.B. Webster, pp. 187-202.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.

Hsu, Chin-hsiung

“Two Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones.” Rotunda, v. 7,
no. 3, 1974, pp. 14-15.

Ignatieff, H.

“Silver.” In The Book of Canadian Antiques, edited by
D.B. Webster, pp. 143-160. Toronto: McGraw-Hill
Ryerson, 1974.

Irwin, S.

“A Bronze Bestiary.” Rotunda, v. 7, no. 3, 1974, pp.
12-13.

Johnston, B.H.

"Forget the Totem Poles.” Educational Courier, v. 45,
no. 7, 1975, pp. 34-36.

—“Glossary of Indian T ribal Names.” In The Dictionary
of Canadian Biography, v. 3, 1 741 -1 770, edited by
F.G. Halpenny, pp. xxxi-xlii. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1974.

—“The Grandchildren.” Tawow, v. 4, no. 1 , 1974, pp.
31-34.

—“The Heart Berry.” Toronto Native Times, v. 6, no. 2,
1975, p. 11.

— “The Origin of Nets.” Toronto Native Times, v. 6, no.
4, 1975, p. 9.

— “To a Friend in an Old Age Home.” Toronto Native
Times, v. 6, no. 2, 1 975, p. 1 1 .

Keall, E.J.

“Persian Castle on the Silk Road.” Rotunda, v. 8, no.
1, 1975, pp. 24-29.

Kenyon, W.A.

“Charlton Island.” The Beaver, Outfit 305:1 , 1 974, pp.
24-31.

73

—“The Early Post at Moose Factory.” Rotunda, v. 8, no.
2, 1975, pp. 14-21.

— The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Capt. Thomas
James. T oronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1 975. 1 46 p.
Kenyon, W.A., and Turnbull, J.R.

The Battle for James Bay. Toronto: Macmillan of
Canada, 1974. 132 p.

Levine, L.D.

“Doorways to Antiquity.” Rotunda, v. 7, no. 3, 1 974,
pp. 32-36.

—Geographical Studies in the Neo-Assyrian Zagros.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum and British Institute of
Persian Studies, 1 974. 1 24 p.

Lumbers, S.B.

Geology of the Bur wash Area, Districts of Ni pissing,
Parry Sound, and Sudbury. Geological Report 1 1 6.
Toronto: Ontario Division of Mines, 1975. 160 p.
Accompanied by Map 2271 .

— “Mattawa— Deep River Area, District of Nipissing and
County of Renfrew.” In Summary of Field Work, 1974,
by the Geological Branch, edited by V.G. Milne, D.F.
Hewitt, and K.D. Card, pp. 1 46-1 49. Miscellaneous
Paper 59. Toronto: Ontario Division of Mines, 1974.

McAndrews, J.H.

"Iroquoian Settlement and Subsistence Patterns Near
Crawford Lake, Ontario” (by W.D. Finlayson, R. Byrne,
and J.H. McAndrews). Canadian Archaeological
Society Bulletin , no. 5, 1 973, pp. 1 34-1 36.
-“Pre-Columbian Purslane ( Portulaca oleracea L.) in the
New World” (by R. Byrne and J.H. McAndrews).

Nature, v. 253, no. 5494, 1975, pp. 726-727.

McGowan, C.

A Revision of the Latipinnate Ichthyosaurs of the Lower
Jurassic of England (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria). Life
Sciences Contribution no. 1 00. Toronto: Royal Ontario
Museum, 1974. 30 p.

Mandarino, J.A.

“The Ahlfeldite-Cobaltomenite Series” (by B.D.
Sturman and J.A. Mandarino). Canadian Mineralogist,
v. 12, pt. 5, 1974, pp. 304-307.

— “Pinchite, a New Mercury Oxychloride from Terlingua,
Texas” (by B.D. Sturman and J.A. Mandarino).
Canadian Mineralogist, v. 1 2, pt. 6, 1 974, pp. 41 7-41 8.
Mills, A.J.

“Archaeological Survey from Gemai to Dal— Report on
the 1 965-66 Season.” Kush] Journal of the Sudan
Antiquities Service, v. 1 5, 1967/68, pp. 200-21 0.

— “Nakht; A Weaver of Thebes” (by P. Lewin, A.J. Mills,
H. Savage, and J.E. Vollmer). Rotunda, v. 7, no. 4,

1974, pp. 14-19.

Mulock, J.

“The Natural Armour of Insects.” The Young
Naturalist, v. 16, no. 7, 1974, pp. 6-7.

74

Nagorsen, D.W.

Chromosomes of Fifteen Species of Bats (Chiroptera)
from Kenya and Rhodesia (by R.L. Peterson and D.W.
Nagorsen). Life Sciences Occasional Paper no. 27.
Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1975. 14 p.

Newlands, D.L.

“The Egmondville Pottery.” Canadian Antiques
Collector, v. 1 0, no. 1 , 1 975, pp. 22-25.

—Flistorical Archaeology Field Manual. Waterloo: Wilfrid
Laurier University, 1 975. 1 1 0 p.

—“Industrial Archaeology at the Royal Ontario
Museum.” Newsletter of the Society for Industrial
Archaeology, v. 4, no. 2-3, 1975, p. 2.

—“A Meeting House for Friends.” Rotunda, v. 7, no. 4,

1974, pp. 24-29.

—“The Yonge Street Friends Meeting House, 1810-

1975. ” York Pioneer, 1975, pp. 41-49.

Odum, A.

“Jim Lumbers.” Nature Canada, v. 4, no. 1 , 1 975, pp.
17-20.

— “Ontario’s Glorious Monument to Man and Nature.”

Reader’s Digest, v. 106, no. 633, 1975, pp. 42-48.
—“Terry Shortt.” Nature Canada, v. 3, no. 3, 1974, pp.
12-18.

—“That Successful, Engaging Immigrant — the Starling.”

Ontario Naturalist, v. 1 4, no. 3, 1 974, pp. 8-1 1 .

—“The Wolverine: Miscreant of the North.” Reader's
Digest, v. 106, no. 634, 1975, pp. 58-62.

Pendergast, D.M.

“The Church in the Jungle.” Rotunda, v. 8, no. 2,

1975, pp. 33-40.

Pepper, D.

“Oshigata (Inscription Rubbing, Translation and Notes)
of a Sword Blade by Sadateru.” Japanese Sword
Society of the United States Newsletter, v. 7, no. 2,
1975, pp. 2-4.

—“Token Kai; The Friendly Invasion.” Rotunda, v. 8, no.

1, 1975, pp. 18-23.

Peterson, R.L.

“Searching for Bats.” Defenders of Wildlife, v. 50, no.

2, 1975, pp. 153-155.

Peterson, R.L., and Nagorsen, D.W.

Chromosomes of Fifteen Species of Bats (Chiroptera)
from Kenya and Rhodesia. Life Sciences Occasional
Paper no. 27. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1 975.

14 p.

Proctor, P.

“Export Wares of the 1 7th Century.” Canadian
Antiques Collector, v. 9, no. 4, 1 974, pp. 27-31 .
—“Prince Yide’s Horse.” Rotunda, v. 7, no. 3, 1974, pp.
20-21.

Pryor, F.

“Fengate.” Current Archaeology, no. 46, 1974, pp.
332-339.

Ramcharan, E.K.

T axonomy of the Genus Lithospermum L. in Ontario.
M.Sc. thesis, University of Toronto, 1 975.

Riotte, J.C.E.

“New Food Plant for Darapsa pholus (Cramer).’’
Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, v. 1 2, no. 4,
1974, pp. 209-210.

— “Uber Orgyia meridionalis (Lepidoptera,
Lymantriidae).” Entomologische Zeitschrift, 84 Jhrg.,
nr. 14, 1974, pp. 149-157.

Rising, J.D.

“A Behavioral and Morphological Study of Sympatry in
the Indigo and Lazuli Buntings of the Great Plains’’ (by
S.T. Emlen, J.D. Rising, and W.L. Thompson). Wilson
Bulletin, v. 87, no. 2, 1 975, pp. 1 45-1 79.

Rising, J.D., and Hudson, J.

“Seasonal Variation in the Metabolism and Thyroid
Activity of the Black-capped Chickadee ( Parus
atricapillus)." Condor, v. 76, no. 2, 1974, pp. 198-203.
Robinson, S., and Scott, W.B.

A Selected Bibliography on Mercury in the
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Fauna and Correlation of the Ravenscrag Formation
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“The Deglaciation History of the Lake Superior Region
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Shih, Hsio-yen

“The Archaeology of the Yangtze Delta.” Journal of
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—Literati Paintings from Japan. Hong Kong: Institute of
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A Preliminary Bibliography of Early Man in Eastern
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“The Andre Frodel Story.” COMPEX Yearbook , 1975,
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Calendar of Events 1974/75

Major Exhibitions

1974

August 8 - November 16, Exhibition Hall and Main
Floor

The Chinese Exhibition —“The Exhibition of
Archaeological Finds of The People’s Republic of
China”

Opened by Her Excellency Madame Jules Leger on
behalf of the Governor General.

1975

January 21 - February 23, Exhibition Hall

“Florentine Baroque Bronzes and Other Objects of
Art”

Opened by Mr. Gordon D. Wotherspoon, Q.C., Chairman,
Board of Trustees, ROM.

April 8 - May 25, Exhibition Hall

“Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan”

Opened by Mr. Yoshiro Arino, Consul General of Japan.

June 24 - August 24, Exhibition Hall

“Images: Stone: B.C.”

Opened by Dr. George Ignatieff, C.C., Chairman of
National Museums of Canada.

Third-Floor Rotunda

1975

February 4 - March 23

“Photo Poetry”

Photos by Edward Zuber, poetry by Ron Young.

March 27 - May 25

“Victoriana 1840-1875”

Organized by Peter Kaellgren, Curatorial Assistant,
European Department, ROM. The display consisted of
about 40 pieces of Victoriana.

June 10 - August 10

“Nest Parasitism in Birds”

Organized by Dr. Ross James of the Department of
Ornithology, ROM.

Lower Rotunda

1974

July 4-31

“The California Condor. ..Last Chance for Survival”

Photographs of the California Condor, the largest flying
bird in North America.

August 2 - November 16

“Faces of Old China”

Photographs of China, taken primarily in Peking,
Shanghai, Tientsin, and Soochow during the first decade
of the 20th century and acquired by the ROM in 1 928.

1975

December 17 -January 21

“Soviet Space Photos”

A photographic record of the USSR in space, organized
by the McLaughlin Planetarium.

January 26 - February 7

“Saturday Morning Club Children’s Art”

A display of work by children in ROM’s Saturday Morning
Club.

March 27 - May 25

“Beneath the Seas”

Watercolours by Allycia Uccello. Arranged by

Dr. A.R. Emery of the Department of Ichthyology and

Herpetology.

June 7 - July 16

“New Zealand: A Nation’s History in Stamps”

Organized by the New Zealand government and its postal
service and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution.

Stamps— Lower Level

1974

to July 15 - extended to September 2

Selected pages from the Douglas Duncan gift collection
of France.

September 3 - October 31

Forty-eight selected pages of Chinese stamps from
earliest issues to modern times.

November 1 - December 15

Selected pages from the Douglas Duncan gift
collection of France.

1975

February 19 - March 31

Forty-eight pages of postage stamps from Great Britain
from the Museum’s Strudley Collection.

April 1 - May 31

Selection of stamps from Expo ’67.

May 1 - June 15

Stamps from early days at York and Toronto post
offices.

June 17 - July 31

Embroidered postcards of World War I.

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Textile Gallery

1974

to July 28

“Made in Canada”

An exhibition in honour of the World Craft Council
meeting in Toronto. The many facets of textile arts as
they were practised in the earlier days of Canada,
including quilts, hooking, macrame.

August 2 - November 16

“Visions of Cathay”

Second Floor, Textile Gallery
Fabrics of the East have aroused enthusiasm in the
West since ancient times. Their unparalleled luxury
inspired legends and helped perpetuate the illusive
vision of Cathay— that mysterious land just beyond the
confines of the known world. The display included
Chinoiseries, fabrics that imitate, suggest, and evoke
the luxury of Cathay.

to November 20

“Folk Arts of Old and New China”

Third floor, Far Eastern Textile Gallery
Fland-dyed batiks, elements of dress, basketry,
lacquer, and folk prints, as well as pottery and
stonewares.

1975

to March 31

“Harvest 74”

A selection of items acquired by the Textile Department
during 1974.

April 1 - May 31

“Exhibition of Near Eastern Robes”

Five cases of Near Eastern robes, rich in history and
design. Representative of Persia, Palestine, Syria, and
Turkey. Arranged by Dr. Veronika Gervers.

April 5 - June 29

“Furnishing Fabrics for Ontario Homes”

Furnishing fabrics fashionable in the 19th century and
still suitable for the Ontario home. Illustrated from
materials in the ROM’s collection.

October 1 - January 1

“Canadian Watercolours and Drawings”

Selected works of art provided a unique pictorial record
of Canada from 1 757 to 1 930.

1975

January 10 - April 6

“Canontoriana”

Early maps of Canada from the collection of
ophthalmologist Dr. Alexander MacDonald. The display
spanned some 500 years, geographically documenting
how voyageurs, explorers, and cartographers first saw
Canada, Ontario, and Toronto.

April 10 - June 15

“York and the Home District”

An exhibition of scenes of pioneer life in York settlement
before and after the rebellion. Watercolours and oil
portraits depicted the influential people who settled York
in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

June 19 -September 14

“Down to the Sea”

An exhibition of oil paintings, watercolours, and prints of
ships and boats which plied the waters, lakes, rivers, and
seas in and around Canada.

Miscellaneous Exhibitions

1975

to March 31

“In the Eye of the Beholder”

Third floor, Lacquer Alcove
A display of personal Chinese adornment.

February 26 - June 30

“Autopsy of an Egyptian Working Man”

Second floor, Pre-History Gallery

The results of the unwrapping and autopsy of a 3,200

year old mummy.

May 1-31

David Reid: “Silver Necklace of the Solar System”
McLaughlin Planetarium

Canadiana Gallery

Lecture Series

1974

to September 15

“Niagara: This Wonderful Downfall”

Views of the falls of Niagara in oil, watercolour, and
engravings from 1 638 to the late 1 9th century. Related
books and diaries augmented the display.

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1974

Lectures related to The Chinese Exhibition

A series of four lectures on Thursdays at 1 1 :30 a.m. in
the Planetarium lecture room. Enrolment was limited to
150.

September 5

“Art and Archaeology of South China”

Dr. Doris Dohrenwend, Assistant Curator, Far Eastern
Department, ROM.

September 12

“Han Tombs and Burials”

Dr. Hsio-yen Shih, Curator, Far Eastern Department,
ROM.

September 19

“Silks and the Silk Route”

Mr. John Vollmer, Assistant Curator, Textiles
Department, ROM.

September 26

“The Splendours of T’ang Ch’ang-an”

Mrs. Patricia Proctor, Curatorial Assistant, Far Eastern
Department, ROM.

A series of four lectures on Mondays at 6 p.m. in the
Planetarium lecture room. Enrolment was limited to 1 50.

September 16

Cocktails followed by special film and reserved viewing
of The Chinese Exhibition.

September 23

“Recent Archaeological Discoveries in China”

Mr. Jan Fontein, Curator, Department of Asiatic Art,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

September 30

“One Hundred Masterpieces from the Avery
Brundage Collection”

Y’von d’Argence, Director and Chief Curator, The Asian
Art Museum, San Francisco.

October 7

“Recently Discovered and Little Known Chinese
Sculpture”

Dr. Sherman E. Lee, Director of The Cleveland Museum
of Art.

1975

“Time” - Winter Science Lecture Series
Introduced by Dr. D.H. Collins, Curator of Invertebrate
Palaeontology.

Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

January 29

“Introduction to Time”

Marshall Thomson, for many years Chief of Time at the
Dominion Observatory in Ottawa.

Attendance: 100

February 5

“The Meaning of Time in Science and Philosophy”

Professor Mendel Sachs, Department of Physics, State
University at Buffalo, New York.

Attendance: 1 25

February 12

“Geologic Time”

Dr. W.E. Swinton, Massey College, University of Toronto.
Attendance: 1 00

February 19

“The Restless Earth: How the earth has been
behaving for the past 4 billion years”

Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, Director General, Ontario Science
Centre, Toronto.

Attendance: 200

February 26

“Biological Clocks”

Professor N. Mrosovsky, Department of Zoology,
University of Toronto.

Attendance: 1 30

March 5

“Mechanical Clocks and Time Keeping”

Dr. Henry King, Curator, McLaughlin Planetarium,
Toronto.

Attendance: 1 00

March 12

“Time in Ancient Cultures”

Professor Jack Finegan, Director of the Palestine Institute
of Archaeology, Pacific School of Religion, University of
California at Berkeley.

Attendance: 145

March 19

“Man! How Times Have Changed”

Professor W.G. Friend, Department of Zoology,

University of Toronto.

Attendance: 90

Special Lectures

1974

October 9

“Mycenaeans and Phoenicians in Cyprus”

Dr. Vassos Karageorghis, Director of the Department of
Antiquities of Cyprus.

8:30 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

November 4

“The Ingenious Beilbys”

James Rush, one of Britain’s foremost authorities on
English glass.

8:30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

November 25

“South German Architecture of the Baroque
Period”

Dr. Franz Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Chief Conservator
at the Office for Preservation of Historic Monuments in
Bavaria.

8:30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

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1975

February 26

Terry Shortt, Chief of the ROM’s Art Department,
lectured on “Animals in Art’’ to the Universities Art
Association of Canada.

7 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

March 7

“Secular Mandala: the Performing Arts in Kyoto in
the Early 17th Century”

Professor Frank Hoff, Associate Professor, East Asian
Studies, University of Toronto.

2 p.m. in Room 4.

March 11

“Santorini and the Legend of Atlantis”

Professor John V. Luce, Trinity College, University of
Dublin. Arranged by University of Toronto’s Fine Arts
Department School of Graduate Studies.

4:30 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

March 22

“Oriental Rugs and Their Place in Islamic Life”

8:30 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room. And—

March 23

“A Treasury of Rugs from the Great Mosque of
Divrigi, Turkey”

2 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

The two lectures above were arranged by the ROM’s
West Asian Department and the lecturer was Dr. Walter
Denny, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Curator,
Oriental Rug Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University.

Miscellaneous Lectures

Archaeological Institute of America Lectures

4:30 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

1975

January 9

“The First Canadian Archaeological Expedition to
Japan”

William M. Hurley, Department of Anthropology,
University of Toronto.

February 5

“Herod the Great and His Legacy”

Harry Thomas Frank of Oberlin College, Ohio.

March 13

“Northwest Coast Art: Early Sources and
Development”

Dr. Joan Vastokas, Department of Anthropology, T rent
University.

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April 9

“A Visit to Athens in April, 1436”

Rev. Edward W. Bodner, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.

The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities
Lectures

Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

1974

November 21

“The Temple of Medinet Habu”

Professor Edward K. Wente, Oriental Institute, University
of Chicago.

1975

January 30

“The Origin of the Semites in Egyptological
Perspective”

Professor Hans Doedicke of Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.

March 13

“The Amarna Period: Akhenaten and Monotheism”

Professor A. Schulman, Queen’s College, New York and
Tel Aviv.

Spot Lectures

1975

January 21

“The Emperor-Hero in Mughal Indian Painting”

Professor Anthony Welch, Department of History,
Victoria University.

Arranged by West Asian Department, ROM.

8:30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

April 17

“The Oriental Origins of the Royal Visigothic
Treasure”

Dr. Philip Lozinski, of Westport, Massachusetts.

8:30 p.m. in the Planetarium lecture room.

Concerts

1974

December 16-20

The Choir of St. George’s College

A selection of Christmas carols and seasonal music was
performed from the Director’s balcony in the main
Rotunda each noon hour.

1 2:30 to 1 :30 p.m. in the Main Rotunda.

1975

Popular Music Series

Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. in the Bishop White Gallery.
Introduced by Paul Grosnay.

February 6

“Sinatra”

Vic Franklyn/Norman Amadio Quintet performed the
music of Frank Sinatra, one of the most influential forces
in modern lyrical song.

Attendance: 100

February 13

“Benny”

Jim Weber Quintet/Aileen Ahern

Benny Goodman took music out of the dance halls and

into the concert halls ... Swing.

Attendance: 85

February 20

“Theatre”

Norman Amadio/Joyce Sullivan/Doug Crossley
From the 1 920s to the 1 960s the Broadway and London
stages have had a strong effect on the course of popular
music.

Attendance: 125

February 27

“Cinema”

John Arpin

A lot of movie musicals have been based on stage
productions ... however, some of the best music by
Berlin, Gershwin, and Porter were specifically written for
film.

Attendance: 120

March 6

“The Duke”

Phil Atonacci Quintet/Aileen Ahern

Duke Ellington’s timeless music spans 20 years of

composition and performance.

Attendance: 120

March 13

“The Latin Influx”

Haygood Hardy and The Montage
Latin influence has enriched the popular music scene ...
the rhythms of the rhumba, samba, and bossa nova have
given a new perspective to an established format.
Attendance: 100

March 20

“Beatles/Bacharach”

Don Gillis Quartet/Rosemary Lynn and Carol Lipson
The Bach-Beethoven of our time. ...

Attendance: 200

March 27

“The Guitars”

Bob Edwards and The Fat City Guitars

At one time the guitar was only associated with Django

Rienhart or Gene Autry ... Elvis ... now it’s a quick way
to become a millionaire and make some good music.
Attendance: 1 00

Special Concert

June 26

Free Concert: Jazz-Classical, with: Monica Gaylord,
Pianist, Janis Orenstein, Soprano, and Kathy Moses’ Jazz
Quartet. Sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council and the
ROM, part of the Festival of Women and the Arts.

5:30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

Attendance: 1 25

Films

1974-75

August 9 - November 16, 1974

A series of 1 0 films to complement “The Exhibition of
Archaeological Finds of The People’s Republic of
China’’.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 7 and 8:30
p.m. in the ROM theatre. Programmes about one hour
long.

November 24, 1974 - March 16, 1975

Sunday Evening Film Programme

Films stressing another kind of living. Arranged to
appeal to an audience of adults, high-school students,
and college students.

Sundays at 7:30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

November 24, 1974 - March 16, 1975

Sunday Family Film Programme

A programme of 42 films designed for the enjoyment of
the entire family.

Sundays at 2.30 p.m. in the ROM theatre.

February 4 - April 29, 1975

Civilization

The series of 1 3 films written and narrated by Sir
Kenneth Clark, in which he charts his personal course
through the major ideas and events of Western
civilization from the collapse of Rome up to the 20th
century. This showing was specially arranged for our
Museology Department and its students, but was open
to the public.

T uesdays at 1 2:45 p.m. in the ROM theatre. Each film 50
minutes long.

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Special Events

Room 4, from 8:30 to 1 1 :30 p.m. There was dancing to
recorded music played by Steve Carenza.

1975

1974
August 7

Official opening day for The Chinese Exhibition.

8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Press preview. 1 00 members of the
press, including art critics, were invited to see the
exhibition and to lunch in the garden.

8:30 p.m. Her Excellency Madame Jules Leger, on
behalf of the Governor General, opened the exhibition.

August 9

University of Toronto and ROM experts performed an
autopsy on a 3,200-year-old mummy of the ROM’s
collection. Results were on display to June 30.

October 1

The Society of American Archivists Workshop was
hosted by the ROM Conservation Department at the
Scollard Street facility.

October 5

Niagara escarpment bus tour, organized by the
Members’ Committee and led by Dr. Walter M. Tovell.

October 9

Xerox held a reception at the Canadiana Gallery to
mark the publication of Canadian Watercolours and
Drawings in the Royal Ontario Museum by Mary Allodi
of Canadiana, and to view the accompanying
exhibition.

October 11

Reception and private viewing of The Chinese
Exhibition for MPs, MPPs, Senators, and Toronto civic
officials.

October 19

The Ontario Archaeological Society Symposium on
Ontario Iroquois Prehistory. 1 80 delegates attended a
day-long session at the Planetarium.

November 13

McGraw-Hill held a reception at the Canadiana Gallery
to mark the publication of The Book of Canadian
Antiques by Donald Blake Webster, Curator of the
Canadiana Department.

November 25

A University of Toronto Press reception to mark the
publication of Bishop in Honan, by Professor Lewis C.
Walmsley, was held in the Bishop White Gallery from
3:30 to 5 p.m.

December 2

Reception for the Ontario Museum Association in the
members’ lounge, organized by the ROM Conservation
Department.

December 16

The ROM Christmas Staff Party was held in the
Dinosaur Den, Children’s Gallery, lower Rotunda, and
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January 20

Members’ opening of “Florentine Baroque Bronzes and
Other Objects of Art”. Mr. Gordon D. Wotherspoon,
O.C., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ROM,
officiated.

March 5

A Members’ day-trip by bus to the Carborundum
Museum of Ceramics in Niagara Falls, New York.

March 8

An afternoon reunion party was held in Room 4 for
Museology alumni.

April 7

Members’ opening of the exhibition “Images of 18th-
Century Japan” took place in Exhibition Hall at 8:30
p.m. Mr. Yoshiro Arino, Consul General of Japan,
officiated.

April 10

A reception and private viewing of the exhibition at the
Canadiana Gallery entitled “York and the Home
District” was arranged for the Ontario Genealogical
Society and lenders.

May 3

Dr. Tovell conducted a bus tour from Leslie Street
Headland to Ajax, including the Scarborough Bluffs.
Held under the auspices of the ROM Members’
Committee and the Metro Toronto Regional
Conservation Authority.

May 23 -24

ROMart ’75, the annual students’ outside art show
organized by the Members’ Committee, was held in
front of the Museum building and on the Planetarium
Plaza. The jury comprised Raymond Moriyama,
distinguished architect, R. York Wilson, well-known
artist, and Kay Kritzwiser, Globe and Mail art critic.

Prize money was $500, with two awards in each of five
categories: painting and drawing, sculpture and
ceramics, material arts, graphics, and photography.

May 21

Members’ Committee annual meeting at Canadiana.

June 10

Farewell party in the garden for Mrs. Betty Brett and
Miss Norma Heakes on their retirement.

June 23

Members’ opening at 8:30 p.m. for the exhibition
“Images: Stone B.C.” Dr. George Ignatieff, C.C.,
Chairman of the Board of T rustees of National
Museums of Canada, officiated.

June 26

Press party for the opening of the “Laserium” show at
the McLaughlin Planetarium.

Bequests, Donations
and Grants
1974-1975

Dr. Parvis Adle

Alcan Canada Products Limited
Alderville Indian Band
Mr. Allen

Mr. W. James Armstrong
Mr. W. Jonathan Armstrong
Ms. Mary S. Augustine

Mr. David Barr

Dr. Evelyn Bateman

Mrs. Anita Bath

Miss Florence Bell

Mr. Norman B. Bell

Bell Canada

Mrs. J.M. Bennett

E.W. Bickle Foundation

Birks Family Foundation

Mrs. Dorothy Cameron Bloor

Dr. N. Braudo

Miss Margot Breckenridge

Mrs. Betty Brett

Miss Marion E. Bristol

Mr. J.A.H. Brocklebank

Mrs. G. Egerton Brown

Mr. Steve Brown

Ms. Phyllis Burgess

Mrs. Dorothy K. Burnham

Miss Anna Cameron
The Canada Council
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce

Canadian National Sportsmen’s
Show

Mrs. Alice Carter
Mrs. Ronald A. Cartwright
Caterpillar of Canada Ltd.

Christie Brown & Co. Ltd.

Miss Kathleen E. Collier
Cominco Limited
Confederation Life Insurance
Company

Continental Can of Canada Ltd.

Corning Glass Works of Canada

Mrs. Lois G. Cowan

Mr. & Mrs. J. Harold Crang

Mrs. M. Crang

Mr. W. Crothers

Mr. Tom DeJourno
Department of Indian & Northern
Affairs
Dr. R. Derry

Dickenson Mines Limited
Mr. Saul Dubinsky

Falconbridge Nickel Mines
Fashion Group, Inc.

Mr. Victor Feldbrill

Mr. R.W. Finlayson
Mr. John Fitzpatrick
Mr. D.W. Forstall
Miss Ursula Foster

General Foods Limited

Geophysical Engineering Limited

Mr. Ian Gillean

Mr. William A. T. Gilmour

Mr. & Mrs. Bert Godfrey

Mrs. Doris Godwin

Dr. Henry Goldberg

Mrs. H. Stephen Gooderham

Mr. & Mrs. G.L. Gordon

Hilda B. Gordon Estate

Mrs. Marg Greey

Mrs. B. Gross

Mrs. Talbot Grubbe

Gulf Oil Canada Ltd.

Miss R.D. Hamilton
Mrs. George G.R. Harris
Mr. William Harris
Miss Margaret Hess
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. H. Hogg
Mrs. M. Holford
Mr. B.T. Holmes
Hope Charitable Foundation
Agencies

Dr. Gordon B. Horne
Mrs. W. Huber
Mrs. Leone A. Humphries
Mrs. Vivian Hunter

The International Nickel Company
of Canada

Jackman Foundation
Mrs. H.R. Jackman
Mr. Henry R. Jackman
Mrs. Lois Collinge Jackson
Mrs. A.W. Jacobs
Mrs. Paul Jeffrey

Mrs. Kathleen Kennedy
Mr. D.F. Kent
Mrs. Gordon E. Kernohan
Mr. & Mrs. J.G. Kirkpatrick
Miss Laurette Koleff

Labrador Mining & Exploration Co.
Ltd.

Laidlaw Foundation

Mrs. W. Douglas Laird

Mr. C.F. Laurin

Mrs. B.M. Lawrie

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick R. Lepper

Mr. S.S. Lerner

Mr. Herman Levy

Mrs. Clark Locke

Long Lac Mineral Exploration Limited

MacDonald Tobacco Inc.

Dr. Alexander MacDonald

Mr. J.K. MacDonald

Mr. & Mrs. W.B. MacDonald

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. MacFeeters

Mr. Ake Malmeus

Mr. Fred Mann

M.A.S.G. Entertainment Corporation

Ms. Muriel Masson

Mr. Walter Masters

John W. McColl Estate

Mr. & Mrs. Frank McConnell

Miss A.C. McCool

Mr. A.D. McEwen

Mrs. Ruth McGill

Dr. W.L.C. McGill

Miss Lois Darrock Milani

Ministry of Colleges & Universities

Ministry of Natural Resources

Dr. William Monk

Mrs. Florence Aileen Morden

Mrs. Earle C. Morgan

Mr. & Mrs. Angus Muller

Mrs. W.M. Myers

National Ballet School (Women’s
Committee)

National Museums of Canada
Dr. D.A. Nelson

Mr. Robert O’Boyle

Mr. S. Perkell

Mr. Jack Peters

Mrs. Kathleen Plewman

Mr. John Lawrence Porter

Mr. & Mrs. Max Posen

Mr. F.C. Powell

Mr. Hugh Pryce-Jones

Mr. & Mrs. W.O. Randall

Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Redelmeier

Mr. & Mrs. W.J. Reeves

Mr. & Mrs. Budd H. Reiger

Mr. & Mrs. G.W.H. Relly

Mrs. John Rhind

Mrs. Jean L. Richardson

Mr. Donald S. Rickerd

Mrs. Marion Robertson

Mr. & Mrs. Norman S. Robertson

Robin Red Lake Mines Limited

Mrs. Richard Rohmer

Mr. Ian Ross

Mr. David Ruddy

Dr. L.S. Russell

Mr. John C. Rykert

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Mrs. Terrance A. Sandison
Mr. John Schorscher
Dr. H.Y. Shih

Dr. & Mrs. Morton Shulman
Mr. Dent Smith
Mrs. Elinor Smith
Henry Richardson Stearns Estate
Mrs. A. Stewart
Ms. Marguerite A.C. Stewart
Mr. & Mrs. Edgar J. Stone
Louise H. Stone Holdings Ltd.

Mr. & Mrs. R.J. Storr
Mrs. Norah Story
Mr. H. Sutherland

Mrs. Deane A. Thomas
Mr. George J.V. Thomson
Mrs. Frank Tilley
Mrs. C.F. Basil Tippett
Tip Top Remaco Limited
Mr. Noah Torno
Dr. W.M. Tovell
Mr. G. Tripp

Mr. J. Bryan Vaughan
Mr. O.D. Vaughan

Miss Isabel C. Waine
Dr. A.I. Waisglass
Ms. Grace Walker
Warner Lambert Canada Ltd.

Mr. D.l. Warren

Dr. & Mrs. G. Weisbrod

Mr. B. White

Dr. Gordon B. White

Mrs. Martha White

Mr. Thos. F. Whitley

Mrs. Joan Wilkins

Miss Esther Williams

Mrs. J.A. Wilson

Mr. R.M. Wingfield

Mrs. R. Winters

Mr. Gordon D. Wotherspoon

Xerox Canada Ltd.

Mr. Leonard C. Yaseen

Mrs. W.E. Young

Mrs. Adam H. Zimmerman

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ROM staff

July 1974— June 1975

Administration

Dr. W.M. Tovell, Director
Miss S. Salo, Secretary

Dr. W.B. Scott, Associate Director

Mr. K.A.R. Torrance, Controller
Miss R. Saunders, Secretary

Mrs. M. Walker, Archives Officer
Mr. J.H. Harvey, Assistant
Controller, Operations
Mrs. W. Greenwood, Secretary
Miss L. Bryant, Membership Clerk
Mr. A.D. Harris, Assistant Controller,
Finance and Accounts
Mr. J. McCombe, Chief Accountant
Mr. K. Murty, Accountant
Mrs. I. MacDonald, Accounts
Payable Supervisor
Miss A. Matheson, Ass’t to
Accounts Payable Supervisor
Miss J. Lim, Payroll
Mrs. E. Kun, Cashier
Mrs. E. Balan, Department Sec’y
Miss L.M. Roe, Personnel Officer
Miss P. Brundrit, Personnel Assistant
Mr. J. Smith, Purchasing Agent
Mr. D. Grace, Mail Clerk
Mr. C. Palmer, Mail Clerk

Board Office

Mr. F.J. Dunbar, Secretary to Board
Miss A. Ittig, Secretary
Miss L. Folds, Clerk-Typist

Museology

Mr. W.H. Bayley, Chairman
Mrs. E. Cruise, Department Sec’y

Programme Secretary

Mrs. H.R. Downie, Programme Sec’y
Miss K. McLay, Ass’t Prog. Sec’y
Mrs. J.R. Dack, Department
Secretary

Art and Archaeology Depts.

Office of the Chief Archaeologist

Dr. A.D. Tushingham, Chief
Archaeologist

Miss L. Hoskins, Secretary to the
Chief Archaeologist
Dr. W.A. Kenyon, Curator (Ontario)
Dr. D.M. Pendergast, Curator
(Central America)

Dr. P.L. Storck, Assistant Curator
(Ontario)

Dr. K.C. Day, Ass’t Curator (Peru)

Mr. F.M.M. Pryor, Assistant Curator
(England)

Mr. S. Dewdney, Research
Associate (Pictographs)

Mrs. M.R.E. Gough, Research
Associate (Byzantine)

Dr. P.D. Harrison, Research
Associate (Mexico)

Dr. M.H. Hill, Research Associate
(West Africa)

Dr. H.S. Loten, Research Associate
(Central America)

Dr. D.A. Nelson, Research Assoc.

Mr. J.R. Turnbull, Research
Associate (History)

Mr. M.A. Lee, Senior Technician
Mrs. J. Hosek, Technician II
Mr. D. Findlay, Technician I
Miss P. Daniels, Department Sec’y
Miss M. Coutinho, Stenographer

V Canadians

Mr. D.B. Webster, Curator
Mrs. H. Ignatieff, Assistant Curator
Mr. D. Newlands, Curatorial Ass’t
Mrs. M. Allodi, Curatorial Assistant
Miss C.J. Holmes, Curatorial Ass’t
Miss N. Willson, Technician II
Mrs. S. Richardson, Technician I
Miss K. Haslan, Department Sec’y

^Conservation

Mr. B. Leech, Associate Curator-in-
charge

Mrs. E. Phillimore, Sr. Conservator
Mr. D. Dudley, Senior Conservator
Mrs. C. Jack, Conservator
Mr. G. Pawlick, Conservator
(Ceramics)

Mr. C. Toogood, Conservator
Mrs. E. Burnham, Conservator
Mrs. G. Moir, Ass’t Conservator
Mr. T. Gentle, Conservator (Scollard)
Mrs. I. Block-Bolton, Conservator
(Scollard)

Miss S. Wilson, Conservator
(Scollard)

Mr. R. McCarroll, Technician I
Prof. U. Franklin, Research
Associate

Miss E. Silberberg, Department
Sec’y

^/Egyptian

Miss W. Needier, Curator Emeritus
Dr. N.B. Millet, Curator
Mr. A.J. Mills, Assistant Curator
Mr. A. Hollett, Technician II
Mr. A.L. Kelley, Research Assistant
P/T

Mr. M.D. Burnham, Nubian Textile
Conservator

Ms. J.D. Lautenschlager, Nubian
Textile Research Assistant
Mrs. A. Gromow, Departmental
Sec’y

Ethnology

Dr. E.S. Rogers, Curator
Dr. H. Fuchs, Assoc. Curator
Dr. C.A. Bishop, Research Associate
Dr. M.B. Black, Research Associate
Dr. W.P. Carstens, Research Assoc.
Dr. David Counts, Research Assoc.

Dr. Dorothy Counts, Research Assoc.
Dr. T.B. Hinton, Research Associate
Dr. S.M. Mead, Research Associate
Dr. A.T. Steegmann, Jr., Research
Associate

Dr. J.N. Vastokas, Research
Associate

Dr. Z. Volavkova, Research Assoc.

Mr. B.H. Johnston, Lecturer,
Museumobile Coordinator
Ms. M. Tivy, Technician I
Mr. A.M. Brownstone, Technician I
Ms. F.V. Davidson, Department
Sec’y

Ms. M. Cozry, Secretary P/T

European

Mr. H. Hickl-Szabo, Curator
Mrs. R.J. Bacso, Assistant Curator
Mr. L. Cselenyi, Assistant Curator
Mr. K.C. Keeble, Curatorial Assistant
Mr. C.P. Kaellgren, Curatorial Ass’t
Mr. I.H. Tilley, Technician II
Miss M. Campbell, Department
Sec’y

Mrs. M. Blake, Secretary

^/Fa.r Eastern

Dr. H.Y. Shih, Curator

Mrs. B. Stephen, Associate Curator

Dr. D. Dohrenwend, Ass’t Curator

Mrs. P. Proctor, Curatorial Assistant

Miss B. Kingston, Librarian III

Dr. C.H. Hsu, Research Assistant

Mrs. S. Irwin, Technician II P/T

Mr. G. Whincup, Technician II

Mr. T. Quirk, Junior Technician

Mrs. S. Ng, Secretary

Mrs. M. Bird, Librarian Ass’t P/T

y Greek and Roman

Mrs. N. Leipen, Curator
Mrs. A.H. Easson, Assistant Curator
Dr. J.W. Hayes, Assistant Curator
Dr. J.S. Wilkinson, Research Assoc.
Dr. J.W. Graham, Research Assoc.

Dr. J. Shaw, Research Associate
Mrs. J. McCormick, Department Sec’y

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Philately

Mr. D. Patrick, Hon. Curator

^K. F Q>.

Textiles

Mrs. K.B. Brett, Curator

Mrs. D.K. Burnham, Assoc. Curator

Dr. V. Gervers, Assistant Curator

Mr. J.E. Vollmer, Assistant Curator

Mrs. C. Zuppinger, Technician II

Mrs. J. Cselenyi, Technician II

Mrs. M. Holford, Lecturer

Mrs. I. Andrews, Department Sec’y

West Asian

Dr. T.C. Young, Jr., Curator
Dr. L. Golombek, Associate Curator
Dr. L.D. Levine, Associate Curator
Dr. E.J. Keall, Assistant Curator
Dr. J.S. Holladay, Research Assoc.
Dr. M.R. Kleindienst (Haldemann),
Research Associate
Dr. H.B. Schroeder, Research
Assoc.

Prof. G.M. Meredith-Owens,
Research Associate
Mr. C. Breede, Senior Technician
Mr. W. Pratt, Technician I
Mrs. T. Wang, Department Sec’y

Science Departments

,/Office of the Chief Biologist

Dr. L.S. Russell, Chief Biologist

✓ Botany

Mr. J. Riley, Curatorial Assistant

y Entomology and Invertebrate
Zoology

Dr. G.B. Wiggins, Curator-in-charge
Dr. D. Barr, Associate Curator
Dr. I.R. Ball, Assistant Curator
Mr. T. Yamomoto, Curatorial Ass’t
Rev. J.C.E. Riotte, Research Assoc.
Dr. A. Brinckmann-Voss, Research
Associate

Mr. T.W. Beak, Research Associate
Dr. D.W. Crocker, Research Assoc.
Dr. R.O. Brinkhurst, Research Assoc.
Dr. F.P. Ide, Research Associate
Dr. G.K. Morris, Research Associate
Dr. J. Berger, Research Associate
Dr. D.G. Cook, Research Associate
Dr. R.J. Mackay, Research Assoc.

Mr. D.A. Harris, Field Associate
Mrs. H. Sutton, Research Assistant
Mrs. N. Avruch, Technician I
Mr. A. Odum, Scientific Illustrator
Ms. T. Sass, Department Sec’y
Miss J. Smith, Sec’y-Technician

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✓ Geology

Dr. S B. Lumbers, Associate
Curator-in-charge
Dr. J.H. McAndrews, Assoc. Curator
Dr. A. Berti, Research Associate
Dr. G. Norris, Research Associate
Dr. M. Saarnisto, Research Assoc.
Mrs. J. Charing, Senior Technician
Mrs. D. Siddiqi, Technician II
Mrs. M. Scheffel, Technician I
Mr. R. Adams, Field Associate
Mr. K. Carriere, Temp’y Research
Ass’t

Mr. L. King, Temp’y Research Ass’t
Mrs. J. Grant, Department Sec’y

/ Ichthyology and Herpetology

Dr. E.J. Crossman, Curator-in-charge
Dr. W.B. Scott, Curator
Dr. A.R. Emery, Associate Curator
Dr. E.K. Balon, Research Associate
Dr. J.P. Bogart, Research Associate
Dr. J.B. Maclnnis, Research Assoc.
Mrs. I. Radforth, Research Associate
Mrs. M.G. Scott, Research Assistant
Mrs. C.D. Goodchild, Research Ass’t
Ms. E.A. Perry, Department Sec’y
Mr. P. Buerschaper, Chief
Technician

Mr. J.B. Moss, Technician II

/ Invertebrate Palaeontology

Dr. D.H Collins, Curator
Dr. P.H. von Bitter, Ass’t Curator
Mr. J. Monteith, Ass’t Curator
Mrs. J. Waddington, Curatorial Ass’t
Dr. C.R. Barnes, Research Assoc.

Dr. T.P. Fletcher, Research Assoc.
Prof. M. Fritz, Research Associate
Dr. A.J. Rowell, Research Associate
Dr. J.B. Waterhouse, Research
Associate

Dr. G. Westermann, Research
Associate

Mr. H. Sabelis, Technician II
Mrs. P. Buckley, Technician II
Mr. R. Barnett, Gallery Technician
Miss J. Burke, Department Sec’y

v Mammalogy

Dr. R.L. Peterson, Curator-in-charge
Dr. J.R. Tamsitt, Acting Curator-in-
charge

Ms. J. Eger, Curatorial Assistant
Mr. D. Nagorsen, Curatorial Ass’t
Mr. S. Brock, Research Associate
Mrs. N. Curry, Research Associate
Dr. J. Rankin, Research Associate
Dr. M.B. Fenton, Research
Associate

Mr. J. Williams, Research Associate
Dr. D. Valdivieso, Research
Associate

Miss L. Lortie, Statistician
Mr. J. Borack, Senior Technician
Mr. B. Herbert, Technician II
Mr. A. Outram, Technician I
Mrs. S. Poray, Artist-Craftsman
Mrs. D. Bunston, Department Sec’y
Ms. N. Grepe, Secretary

y Mineralogy

Dr. J.A. Mandarino, Curator
Dr. R.l. Gait, Associate Curator
Dr. F.J. Wicks, Assistant Curator
Mrs. V. Anderson, Research Assoc.
Dr. J. Satterly, Research Associate
Mr. E.B. Tiffany, Research Associate
Mr. G.G. Waite, Research Associate
Dr. J. Weber, Research Associate
Mr. B.D. Sturman, Chief Tech’n
Mr. U. Grassi, Chief Technician
Mrs. C. Peat, Technician II
Mr. D. McKinnon, Technician II
Mrs. J. Galt, Technician I
Mr. P. Teewiss, Technician I
Miss H. Driver, Department Sec’y

Ornithology

Dr. J.C. Barlow, Curator
Dr. A.J. Baker, Assistant Curator
Dr. R.D. James, Assistant Curator
Mr. J.A. Dick, Curatorial Assistant
Dr. W.W.H. Gunn, Research Assoc.
Dr. R.I.C. Hansell, Research Assoc.
Rev. R.C. Long, Research Associate
Dr. J.D. Rising, Research Associate
Dr. H.G. Savage, Research Assoc.
Mr. G.B. Murphy, Senior Technician
Mr. L. Ferguson, Technician II
Mr. B. MacRobie, Jr. Technician
Mr. M. McNall, Technician I
Ms. J. Schroer, Department Sec’y

/ Vertebrate Palaeontology

Dr. A.G. Edmund, Curator

Dr. C. McGowan, Associate Curator

Dr. C.S. Churcher, Research Assoc.

Dr. T.E. Parsons, Research Assoc.

Mr. G. Gyrmov, Chief Technician

Mr. R. Zimmermann, Sr. Technician

Mr. D. Fisk, Technician II

Miss J. Lindsay, Research Ass’t

Mrs. S. Saunders, Department Sec’y

McLaughlin Planetarium

Dr. H.C. King, Curator

Dr. T.R. Clarke, Associate Curator

Mr. N. Green, Assistant Curator

V

l

Mr. R.J. Ballantyne, Planetarium
Producer, Curatorial
Mr. W.T. Peters, Curatorial Assistant
Mr. F.W. Jessop, Production
Supervisor

Mr. L. Kistritz, Technical Coordinator
Mr. C. Gomes, Planetarium Engineer
Mr. J. Moleiro, Technician I
Mr. W. Ireland, Graphic Artist
Mr. M. Giovinazzo, Photographer
Mr. D. Bray, House Manager
Mrs. L.J. Spicer, Department Sec’y
Ms. V. Pattusch, Advance Booking
Clerk

Mrs. D. DeVille, Head Hostess
Miss L. Buldo, Hostess
Mrs. J. Edwards-Davies, Hostess
Miss M. LoRe, Hostess
Miss B. Feltz, Hostess
Miss R. Baxter, Hostess
Miss C. Drake, Hostess
Mrs. L.J. Neale, Ticket Seller
Miss C. Roberts, Receptionist
Mrs. N. Biscott, Receptionist P/T
Mr. J. Kenny, Operator P/T
Mr. G. Wicks, Operator P/T
Mr. I. McGregor, Operator P/T

Service Departments

y Art

Mr. T.M. Shortt, Chief Artist
Mr. D. Pepper, Coordinator
Miss S. Hahn, Artist-Craftsman P/T
Mr. J. Mulock, Artist-Craftsman

Book and Gift Shop

Mrs. P. Dowton, Manager
Mrs. M. Caldwell, Secretary
Miss M. Fundarek, Main Store
Miss L. Payette, Main Store
Miss N. Fraser, Main Store
Miss M. Kaellgren, Main Store
Miss B. Carr, Mini Shop
Mr. W.S. Jong, Stockroom Clerk

Design

Mr. J.R. Anthony, Chief Designer
Mr. G.S. McIntosh, Ass’t to Chief
Mr. T.W. Moore, Draftsman
Mr. D.F. Lloyd, Designer
Mr. W. Kennedy, Designer
Mr. F. Peynado, Painter
Miss M-E. Matthews, Department
Sec’y

^Education

Mr. R.E. Moynes, Chairman
Miss N.E. Heakes, Chairman
Emeritus

Miss A.M. Chrysler, Lecturer

Miss N. Gahm, Lecturer

Mrs. P. Isetta, Lecturer

Mrs. M. Jenkins, Lecturer

Mr. B. Manuel, Lecturer

Mr. R. Miles, Lecturer

Mrs. H. Liebmann, Supervisor S.M.C.

Mrs. G. Frampton, Department Sec’y

Mrs. E.A. Routh, Sec'y, School Visits

Mrs. C.A. Barton, Assistant Sec’y

Miss A. Neale, Clerk-typist

Extension Services

Mr. D. Young, Chairman
Miss E. Clark, Extension Officer
Mr. H. Vanstone, Extension Officer
Mr. R. Watters, Media Specialist
Miss F. Brittain, Designer
Mr. J. Hillen, Designer
Mr. C. Reid, Carpenter
Mr. J. Bailey, Museumobile Driver
Mr. R. Johnston, Museumobile
Driver

Mr. R. Kirkman, Museumobile Driver
Mrs. J. Soden, Department Sec’y
Mrs. H. Osoba, Secretary

Information Services

Mr. D.K. Brown, Public Relations
Manager

Miss J. Court, Information Assistant
Mr. J. Campsie, Supervisor of
Publications

Mrs. D. Sewell, Associate
Publications Editor
Mr. J.S. Grant, Graphic Designer
Miss L. Campbell, Graphic Designer
Mrs. U. Young, Editorial Assistant
Miss I. Hambleton, Department
Sec’y

Miss N. Neal, Clerk-typist

Laboratory of Analytical
Systematics

Dr. Kian Chua, Lab. Supervisor
Mr. C. Gilmour, Technician
Mrs. E.P. McGann, Data Processing
Mr. E. Lin, Scanning Electron
Microscope, Radiography

Library

Miss J.P. Morgan, Head Librarian
Mrs. P. Houston, Librarian
Miss S. Hick, Librarian
Miss E. Dowie, Librarian
Mrs. G. Livingstone, Library Tech’n
Mrs. P. Trunks, Library Technician
Mrs. D. Coburn, Library Assistant
Mrs. M. Doig, Library Assistant
Mrs. J. Farmer, Library Assistant

Photography

Mr. L.R. Warren, Head Photographer
Mr. W. Robertson, Ass’t Head
Mr. B. Boyle, Photographer
Mr. A. McColl, Chief Technician
Ms. C. MacDonald, Department
Sec’y

Registration

Miss D. Hecken, Registrar
Mrs. F. Stanley, Customs Officer
Miss M. Shook, Registration Ass’t
Mrs. S. Tanner, Technician I
Mrs. S. Ruttner, Clerk-typist

Carpenter Shop

Mr. A. Russell, Head Carpenter
Mr. A. Campbell, Ass’t Head
Mr. W.H. Cook, Carpenter
Mr. M. Holder, Carpenter
Mr. D. MacLeod, Carpenter
Mr. E. McLerie, Carpenter
Mr. R. Millar, Carpenter
Mr. J. McKellar, Carpenter
Mr. J. Zawadzki, Carpenter

Preparators

Mr. I. Lindsay, Head Preparator
Mr. F. Howell, Assistant Head
Mr. W. Renison, Preparator
Mr. J. Stewart, Preparator
Mr. W. Routley, Preparator
Mr. D.M. Lloyd, Preparator
Mr. F. McKeen, Preparator
Mr. H. Beaver, Preparator
Mr. G. O'Connor, Preparator
Mr. V. Peverley, Preparator
Mr. J.W. MacDonald, Preparator

Membership Lounge

Mr. E. Bright, Bartender/Steward

Building

Mr. A. Lawrence, Building Sup’t
Mr. T. Friend, Ass’t Building Sup’t
Mrs. B. Statham, Reception Desk
Miss L. Stefanovski, Turnstile
Cashier

Security Officers

Mr. G. Anderson
Mr. H.H. Baldwin
Mr. N. Bassett
Mr. W. Boroskie
Mr. R. Buchan
Mr. F. Burritt
Mr. R.B. Cameron
Mr. S. Carenza
Mr. A. Chute
Mr. T. Cioffi

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Mr. P. Cook
Mr. S. Cortes
Mr. W. Cowan
Mr. N. Cummings
Mr. S. Dawson
Mr. W. Grundy
Mr. H.R. James
Mr. C. John
Mr. P. Kleon
Mr. R.W. Lacey
Mr. D. Lawson
Mr. P. Maguire
Mr. R. Maend
Mr. J. Mendes
Mr. I. Munroe
Mr. V. Murphy
Mr. D. Nasato
Mr. W. Nethery
Mr. L. Peters
Mr. W.J. Power
Miss J. Rittersporn
Mr. D. Schmitz
Mr. A.P. Selman
Mr. W. Shipman
Mr. F. Smyth
Mr. J. Tran
Mr. J. Trepacz
Mr. P. Urbanski
Mr. J. Weissbart
Mr. J. Wellington

Service Employees

Mr. R. Diniz
Mr. P. Dowhan
Mr. J. Droulias
Mr. A. Fava
Mr. A. Galati
Mr. F. Galati
Mrs. M.J. Matos
Mr. J. Melo
Mr. B. Solomine
Mr. S. Stefanovski
Mrs. G. Wong

Maintenance Workers

Mr. H. Booton
Mr. A. Felipe
Mr. S. Jackson
Mr. T. Kukkonen

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